Practical Materialism: Engels’s Anti-Dühring as Marxist Philosophy
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Blackledge, P (2017). Practical Materialism: Engels’s Anti-Dühring as Marxist Philosophy. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory. 45 (4), pp. 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2017.1377927
Authors | Blackledge, P |
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Abstract | Frederick Engels’s Anti-Dühring was the most important theoretical response to the emerging reformist tendencies within European socialism in the nineteenth century. It also proved to be Engels’s most influential, and controversial work. Because it is, as Hal Draper points out, “the only more or less systematic presentation of Marxism” by either by Marx or Engels, anyone wanting to reinterpret Marx must first detach it from his seal of approval. It is thus around Anti-Dühring and related texts that debates about the relationship of Marx to “Engelsian” Marxism have tended to focus. This essay re-engages with debates about Engels’s mature work with a view to unpicking his contribution to Marxism from caricatured criticisms of his thought. |
Keywords | Other Economics; Cultural Studies; Philosophy |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory |
Journal citation | 45 (4), pp. 483-499 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0301-7605 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2017.1377927 |
Publication dates | |
06 Nov 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Oct 2017 |
Accepted | 02 Aug 2017 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
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