{"id":2459,"date":"2023-11-09T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.praksis.org\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:24:54","slug":"issue-58-engels-200-history-society-class-and-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.praksis.org\/en\/sayilar-en\/issue-58-engels-200-history-society-class-and-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 58 – Engels 200: History, Society, Class, and City"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”2456″ img_size=”large” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Friedrich Engels: The First Marxist Historian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aytek Soner Alpan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By focusing on Friedrich Engels\u2019 three book-length studies (The Condition of the Working Class in England, Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, German Peasants\u2019 War<\/em>) this article deals with this revolutionary figure\u2019s craft of writing history. Not only was he one of the founders of Marxism, continuing his historical research throughout his life Engels was also entitled as first Marxist historian. The works bearing his signature demonstrate that Engels uncovered both the economic foundations of social transformations and the course of history, as well as the historical and social essence of the economic realm; illuminated the ability of the economically and socially disadvantaged classes, especially the working class, to make history in their struggle against the ruling classes and exhibited the class quintessence of legal, political, religious\/ideological forces, shaped by the material interests of social subjects.<\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Friedrich Engels, history, Marxist historiography, historical materialism, revolution<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friedrich Engels and Revolution Theory: The Legacy of a Revolutionary Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00c7i\u011fdem Demircan-Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Perception of Nature in Engels and \u201cMetabolic Rift\u201d in Marxism<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The relationship between humans and nature is dialectical. Our evolution to the modern-day social beings is a result of having a long history of humanity behind us and getting a social drive from what came before, but as the human species, we owe our existence to natural history that is longer than human history and that continued, continues and will continue with or without us. We are all a part of an organism in that we are mutually acting, changing, and transforming. In this study, I will try to discuss how we, as social, conscious transformative beings, have caused destruction in this organism due to the capitalist mode of production, with the reference to the especially early works of Engels, the second violinist of the orchestra of Marxism, one of the two great explorers of Marxism who played with a similar harmony and rhythm.<\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Engels, Marxism, ecology, alienation, metabolic rift<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friedrich Engels, a Cosmopolitan Materialist or Why No Real Engelsism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Has Emerged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karl Hermann Tjaden<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From \u201cThe Origins\u201d to \u201cThe History Thesis\u201d: On the Track of the Continuity between Engels and Kivilcimli<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mert B\u00fcy\u00fckkarabacak<\/strong><\/p>\n

History Thesis (HT) is one of the foci of the theoretical work of Hikmet K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131, who died 50 years ago on October 11th, 1971. HT was mostly inspired by the anthropological search of L.H. Morgan, which was also the main source of Engels\u2019s \u201cThe Origins, and the historical sociology developed by \u0130bn Khaldoun, who used the conflicts between the nomadic and the city-based civilized communities as a leading force for change and development. K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131, like his other contemporary communist theoreticians, tried to develop an alternative for the economistic interpretations of Marxism, especially the ones which were based on the Second International tradition. To manage this, he transformed the productive forces\u2019 definition and expand it with new attachments like geography, history (traditions), and collective action capacity. He classified history and collective action as \u201chumanistic productive forces\u201d. HT, on the one hand, was an effort to clarify how the pre-capitalist structures, classes, and institutions affect the capitalist development in an underdeveloped society and on the other hand an offer a kind of solution to the subject-structure dilemma of the early Marxist literature. This original intervention of HT\u2019s was interpreted by some Marxist critics as non-Marxist. In this paper, I showed that K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131\u2019s HT can be seen as an elaborated expansion of the themes developed by Engels in the \u201cOrigins\u201d. A parallel reading of Engels and K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131 easily deciphers the continuities of their approaches.<\/p>\n

Key Words: <\/strong>Engels and the Origin, K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131 and his History Thesis, Historical Revolutions, Hikmet K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131ml\u0131, Friedrich Engels<\/em><\/p>\n

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Class, Morality, Politics: The Concept of the Lumpen in Marx and Engels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Selin Dingilo\u011flu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marx and Engels\u2019 works contain highly rich descriptions about the unstable, fragmented and heterogeneous character of the proletariat\u2019s relationship both with cultural dynamics of industrial cities and political practices of the time. One of the most controversial concepts in this particular context is lumpenism. The literature regarding the use of the term lumpen (proletariat) in Marxist classics usually and mainly focuses on Marx\u2019s writings on 1848 French revolutions and the role attributed to the declassed poor in the defeat of revolutions. However, Engels\u2019s vivid portrayal of working-class culture and identity, especially in The Condition of English Working Class<\/em>, suggests a much further and larger scope as far as lumpenism is concerned \u2013i.e. ethico-political formation of the proletariat as the agency of a social and political revolution. By scanning mainly Engels\u2019 work, this article focuses on the following questions: Does the category of lumpen offer any analytical function in terms of structural class analysis based on production relations? How is the concept lumpen relevant to the debate on the political agency and potency of the working class, especially in terms of divergence between Marxism and other (early) socialist doctrines? How can we assess the moralist implications of degeneration inherent in the concept of \u201clumpen\u201d, especially considering the relationship between bourgeois moralism of the 19th century and Marxism?<\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Lumpen, declassed, working class, Marxism, moralism<\/em><\/p>\n

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War and Revolution: Friedrich Engels as a Military and Political Thinker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Blackledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article explores the link between political and military strategy and tactics in the work of Friedrich Engels. Though widely praised for his understanding of military affairs, Engels\u2019 interlocutors have tended to be dismissive of his political works. By exploring his politics through the lens of his military writings this article challenges the view that Engels was a mechanical materialist and political fatalist thinker. It argues that his military writings cannot be understood apart from his political works, and that, whatever the historical limitations of the specific conclusions to which he came, his method in these writings illuminate his profound grasp of the relationship between strategy and tactics at both the military and political levels.<\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>War, revolution, Engels, strategy, tactics<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dialectic Theory: \u201cDialectic of Nature\u201d or Dialectic of Thought?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engin Delice<\/strong><\/p>\n

The books titled Anti-D\u00fchring <\/em>and the Dialectic of Nature <\/em>aim to link the historical and social assumptions of Marxism with the natural sciences. The explanations here give Engels a distinctive place within the Marxist tradition of philosophy. The term \u201cdialectics of nature\u201d, which Engels never used, represents this place. However, is this dialectic the \u201cdialectic of nature\u201d or the dialectic of thought that processes information about nature? (The question will be answered against Engels by standing on Engels\u2019 side.) \u201cDialectic in nature\u201d has turned into a dialectical understanding that functions like the law of the elements of nature. This is a controversial result. But this is not the dialectic applied by Engels. Engels does not use the operation of facts, but a dialectic, which is the method of operation of knowledge about facts. \u201cDialectic in nature\u201d of which Engels speaks limited to the processing of knowledge about the objects of their science. This basically means applying the dialectic as a method, which is the definition of the dialectic of thought. To justify this assumption: First, the images that cause the dialectic to be seen in different forms are analysed. Secondly, Engels\u2019 dialectic is shown as a method in general and as a method of thought in particular. Then, the relationship between dialectic and science is shown as a search to bring objectivity to the method and the problematic relationship of orthodox Marxism and Western Marxism with the scientific nature of dialectics is summarized. The article concludes by referring to the political needs behind Engels\u2019s dialectical treatment of the natural sciences.<\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Engels, Marx, Marxism, dialectics of nature, dialectical method, philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

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