Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-11-02 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/03 11:14 AM B. Ollman says somewhere that Engels as well as Marx didn't use any firm labels, mostly saying something like our historical method, etc. Carrol engels used term 'materialist conception of history' in review he wrote of marx's 1859 _contribution to a critique

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-11-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/03 11:14 AM B. Ollman says somewhere that Engels as well as Marx didn't use any firm labels, mostly saying something like our historical method, etc. Carrol I think Marx and Engels did use firm labels (cf. the Communist Manifesto) but these labels changed and evolved

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-10-31 Thread andie nachgeborenen
J, this is too long for me; just a few quickies: --- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Justin, Thanks, I'd missed that. But one really has to look for it, right? Yes, although when I studied Engels's writings (published and unpublished) in the early 1980s, I found several

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-10-31 Thread Carrol Cox
andie nachgeborenen wrote: I would not be surprised if Engels occasionally adopted the usage that Kautsky popularized in late mid-late 1880s; you won't find it in his work before then, I'ld bet. And, as I said, it's not a common trope. B. Ollman says somewhere that Engels as well as Marx

Engels's use of the term Marxist

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
In his foreword to his essay Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886), dated February 21, 1888, Frederick Engels does use the term Marxist, namely, he claimed confidently, In the meantime, the Marxist world outlook has found representatives far beyond the boundaries of

Engels's use of the term Marxist -- and Ours

2003-10-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Thanks, I'd missed that. But one really has to look for it, right? Calling scientific socialism Marxism isn't something either of them did muchj, Marx, never; in a couple of letters, Engels reports that Marx rejected the label in particular contexts. I don't have the references to hand, but some

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist -- and Ours

2003-10-30 Thread Grant Lee
From: andie nachgeborenen Calling scientific socialism Marxism isn't something either of them did much According to Hal Draper, Marx never referred to scientific socialism either, although the term was already around, invented by Karl GrĂ¼n. Engels obviously _did_ use it. I believe it was

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Hi Justin, Thanks, I'd missed that. But one really has to look for it, right? Yes, although when I studied Engels's writings (published and unpublished) in the early 1980s, I found several loci. It is just that I do not have the literature handy here anymore, and I am too preoccupied to go to