Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.
In this comprehensive overview of Friedrich Engels’s writings, Paul Blackledge critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically. Through a careful examination both of Engels’s role in the forging of Marxism in the 1840s, and his contributions to the further deepening and expansion of this worldview over the next half century, Blackledge offers a closely argued and balanced assessment of his thought. This book challenges the long-standing attempt among academic Marxologists to denigrate Engels as Marx’s greatest mistake, and concludes that Engels was a profound thinker whose ideas continue to resonate to this day.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marx, Engels, Marxism
1. Discovering the Working Class
2. Mapping the English Working Class
3. A New Theoretical Foundation: The German Ideology
4. The Communist Manifesto: A Strategy for the Left
5. 1848: War, Revolution, and the National Question
6. 1848: Intervening in the Revolution
7. Learning Lessons from Defeat
8. Military Critic: Confronting the Prospect of War
9. Revolutionary Continuity
10. Method and Value: (Mis)Understanding Capital
11. Philosophy and Revolution: Anti-Dühring
12. Toward a Unitary Theory of Women’s Oppression
13. Beyond 1848: Engels’s ‘Testament’
14. Legacy
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Paul Blackledge teaches at Shanxi University. He is the author of Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution, also published by SUNY Press; Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History; and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left.
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