Why Did Engels Write Anti-Dühring?
Thomas Riggins
http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-did-engels-write-anti-duhring.html
In the 1870s the German professor Eugen Dühring joined the German
Social Democratic Party. He made a lot of friends and began
interpreting socialism along lines tha
Hopefully, the next installment will be better
than this. This one is devoid of serious content
and repeats unexamined cliches. Of far greater
importance than Engels' nebulously conceived
dialectics of nature is his criticism of
Duhring's metaphysical approach. In this respect,
Engels' work d
Why Did Engels Write Anti-Dühring ?
Marx and Engels rejected utopian/non-scientific socialism, and
resented anything that might have more popularity or appeal than their
own ideas--especially in the German-speaking world. They could also be
highly polemical, vindictive (and repetitious) bastards,
On 1/5/10, CeJ wrote:
> Go back in your history far enough and you see how free trade wasn't
> really the reality of the British or the Americans. In the first half
> of the 19th century, many Americans talked the Adam Smith talk, but
> walked the 'national dirigiste development' walk. See, for e
Oops I just posted a reply to JF's bounce box.
Here it is again.
MF>>Marx & Engels, while generally favorable
to free trade, weren't always as gung-ho
about it as Engels was in Anti-Durhing.
In other writings, they recognized that
under certain conditions that infant industry
arguments for protec
