Edward Aveling

Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a playwright and actor. Aveling was the author of numerous scientific books and political pamphlets; he is perhaps best known for his popular work ''The Student's Darwin'' (1881); he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's ''Das Kapital'' and Friedrich Engels' ''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific''.

Aveling was elected vice-president of the National Secular Society in 1880–84, and was a member of the Democratic Federation and then a member of the executive council of the Social Democratic Federation, and was also a founding member of the Socialist League and the Independent Labour Party. During the imprisonment of George William Foote for blasphemy, he was interim editor for ''The Freethinker'' and ''Progress. A Monthly Magazine of Advanced Thought''. With William Morris, he was the sub-editor of ''Commonweal''. He was an organizer of the mass movement of the unskilled workers and the unemployed in the late 1880s unto the early 1890s, and a delegate to the International Socialist Workers' Congress of 1889. For fourteen years, he was the partner of Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, and co-authored many works with her. Provided by Wikipedia