G'day Charles,
You say "Materialist dialectics was Engels' , and not Marx's."
I rteckon we have to be very explicit and specific here.
I thought, for instance, that you and I had come to agree that materialism
is not the same as physicalism? Social
*relations* are material for Marx, and, indeed, the basis of what he called
his materialist conception of history. Freddy's *Anti-Duhring* has some
beaut bits in it, but, as I've tried to show you elsewhere, is difficult to
nail on exactly what is meant by 'dialectic'. Stalin ended up with a view
that finds support in Anti-Duhring, but so does, say, Fromm - and those two
chaps would've agreed on bugger-all.
Cheers,
Rob.
