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Friedrich Engels

Engels: the enemy within?

Posted on 24th October 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature, Kaan Kangal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), £44.99 Was Friedrich Engels an “enemy within” who did a fundamental disservice to Marxism? Did he make a mistake by trying to apply Marxist principles… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Friedrich Engels, nature, Science

Making an ecological worldview

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Ecology, Environment, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Science

Marx, Engels und ihr Kampf für Frauenbefreiung

Posted on 12th May 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 166—isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels waren große Verfechter der Frauenbefreiung – in Bezug auf die Theorieentwicklung und die Praxis, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat.1 Es wurden… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation

How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation

Posted on 29th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both took a great interest in early human history and prehistory, and it was Marx’s notes on Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society that prompted Engels to produce The Origin of the Family, Private Property and… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Neanderthals

Engels’s contradictions: a reply to Tristram Hunt

Posted on 9th January 2012 by ISJ

In a recent and reasonably popular biography, Tristram Hunt charges Friedrich Engels with a series of class and gender contradictions: he condemned prostitution but enjoyed it himself; he looked askance at marriage and yet married Lizzy Burns on her deathbed;… Continue Reading →

Analysis Friedrich Engels

Engels on the power of nature

Posted on 1st April 2011 by ISJ

The terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit Tohuku in northeastern Japan on 11 March took place as this issue of International Socialism was on its way to the press. The scenes in which the tsunami swept away vast swathes of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Environment, Friedrich Engels
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