Author:
Blackledge, Paul, 1967- author.
ImprintAlbany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Descriptionix, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction : Marx, Engels, Marxism -- Discovering the working class -- Mapping the English working class -- A new theoretical foundation: the German ideology -- The communist manifesto : a strategy for the left -- 1848 : war, revolution and the national question -- 1848 : intervening in the revolution -- Learning lessons from defeat -- Military critic : confronting the prospect of war -- Revolutionary continuity -- Method and value : (mis)understanding capital -- Philosophy and revolution : anti-Dühring -- Towards a unitary theory of women's oppression -- Beyond 1848 : Engels's "testament" -- Legacy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Note: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.
