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Frederick Engels: The First Marxist?[embedded content] The 2023 World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) Forum took place in Pingtan city (Fudgian province, China). In this forum I presented a paper titled ‘Once Again On The Alledged Differences Between Marx and Engels’. The paper confronts the attacks by many older and newer anti-Engelsionists (prominent among them M.Heinrich and D.Harvey) against Engels and it refutes their allegations that (a) Engels has falsified Marx’s...

On this day, August 5, 1895, the co-founder of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, died. His contribution to both theoretical analysis and revolutionary politics was decisive, regardless of the fact that he himself chose to play «second fiddle». Today, his contribution is under the attack of «spineless friends of Marxism». The key points of this attack are that: (a) Marx was a liberal spirit who constantly investigated issues and who in the end probably did not have a firm opinion on...

Σαν σήμερα, την 5η Αυγούστου του 1895, πέθανε ο συνιδρυτής του Μαρξισμού Friedrich Engels. Η συνεισφορά του τόσο στην θεωρητική ανάλυση όσο και στην επαναστατική πολιτική υπήρξε καθοριστική, άσχετα με το γεγονός ότι ο ίδιος επέλεξε να κάνει το «δεύτερο βιολί». Σήμερα, η συμβολή του αυτή βρίσκεται στο στόχαστρο της επίθεσης «άσπονδων φίλων του Μαρξισμού». Τα βασικά σημεία της επίθεσης αυτής είναι ότι: (α) Ο Marx ήταν ένα φιλελεύθερο πνεύμα που ερευνούσε συνεχώς ζητήματα και που...

ΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ για τα 200 χρόνια από την γέννηση του F.Engels «O Engels ως κριτικός του καπιταλισμού και θεωρητικός της επανάστασης» Διοργάνωση: ΤΕΤΡΑΔΙΑ ΜΑΡΞΙΣΜΟΥ, ε-ΚΡΙΣΗ 28/11/2020 Ομιλητές: Κ.Πασσάς (ερευνητής ΚΕΠΕ), «Ξαναδιαβάζοντας τον Ένγκελς» Α.Χρύσης (καθηγητής, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο), «Ο ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΣ ENGELS. Ο «Στρατηγός» και η πολιτική» Στ.Μαυρουδέας (καθηγητής, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο), «Ο Engels συνιδρυτής του Μαρξισμού και οι απόπειρες αντιπαράθεσεις του στον Marx»...

This year is the anniversary of the 200 years since Friedrich Engels’ birth. The recent issue of journal International Critical Thought celebrates this occasion by publishing a collection of articles analysing Engels’ theoretical and political contribution to Marxism. I have contributed to this special issue with a paper defending Engels against a host of detractors. The title of the paper is ‘Once Again on the Alleged Differences between Engels and Marx’. Its details are the...

Human Geography First Published July 8, 2020 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/1942778620937123 Friedrich Engels and his contribution to Marxism Stavros Mavroudeas Professor (Political Economy) Dept. of Social Policy Panteion University e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The 200th anniversary of the birth of F.Engels comes at a time when his contribution to Marxism is being disputed by Neue Lekture and Sraffian authors, based on the alleged discovery of him having...

Rilanciamo un breve articolo di Massimo Pivetti pubblicato su Costituzionalismo.it (FASCICOLO 3 | 2017, 16 gennaio 2018) sull'anti-statalismo della sinistra che ha purtroppo radici intellettuali profonde (anche se storicamente comprensibili). Naturalmente il ruolo insopprimibile dello Stato in una socialdemocrazia e a maggior ragione nel socialismo pone problemi molto rilevanti relativi alla sua democraticità (dal punto di vista dei lavoratori naturalmente). La sinistra è però sfuggita ai...

That is, what is the case against the actual theory presented by Karl Marx in volume 1 of Capital? This was the only volume of Capital that Marx published in his lifetime, and volume 3 contradicts volume 1 in important respects.First, we need to know what Marx actually argued in volume 1 of Capital.The essence of Marx’s theory and his conception of the historical tendency of capitalism is as follows:(1) Marx had an elaborate labour theory of value on which he founded volume 1 of Capital (see...

Eduard Bernstein in Evolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and Affirmation (1909) describes Friedrich Engels’ attempt to defend the idea that the law of value in volume 1 of Capital was both empirical and historical: “According to the Marxist theory surplus value is, as we have seen, the pivot of the economy of a capitalist society. But in order to understand surplus value one must first know what value is. The Marxist representation of history and of the course of development of capitalist...

The expression “Engels’ Pause” was coined by Robert C. Allen and refers to the period of real wage stagnation or low real wage growth in Britain in the early 19th century from about 1800 to 1840, even when real per capita GDP was rising in an historically unprecedented manner. You can see the “pause” in the graph of historical British real wages and per capita GDP per worker here.First, it is important to note that some economic historians have challenged the data on GDP and real wages in...