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| Named Person: | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Terrell Carver |
| ISBN: | 0192804669 9780192804662 |
| OCLC Number: | 51528173 |
| Description: | 105 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1: Engels and Marx -- 2: Journalist -- 3: Communist -- 4: Revolutionary -- 5: Marxist -- 6: Scientist -- 7: Engels and Marxism -- Further reading -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Very short introductions, 91 |
| Responsibility: | Terrell Carver. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
From the Publisher: It is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx's to attract and make converts to the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism-the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries-but was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher, and commentator on early Marx. In his later years Engels developed his materialist interpretation of history, his chief intellectual legacy, which has had revolutionary effects on the arts and social sciences. Terrell Carver traces its source and its effect on the development of Marxist theory and practice, assesses its utility, and discusses the difficulties which Marxists have encountered in defending it.
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