Marx i Engels
Marx and Engels

Summary/Abstract: The comparison of the interpretational statements of Marx and Engels produces, as a rule, in one of two diametrically opposite views. According to that held by Marxists-Leninists, there exists a substantial theoretical unity of the two authors, and any attempt at denying this is inspired by anti-Marxist propaganda. According to the view held by a number of eminent authors, such as Lukács. Marcuse, Fetscher, Langrebe, Sartre, Kolakowski and others. Engels falsified Marx. The manner in which Western scholars draw a distinction between Marx and Engels is unjustified. Thus, for example, Lukács. Fetscher and Landgrebe depart from a cut-and-dried concept of Marx's dialectic, or philosophy, substantiating this concept merely by sparse quotations from his texts written in 1844, and then using this concept as a criterion for the verification of various statements made by Engels. This procedure is doubly improper. It can be countered by an ap¬proach which starts from Engels and asks w hat could be put forward, from the aspect of the mature Marx, against: (a) developing a dialectic of nature; (h) interpreting history as a process occurring according to the laws of nature and stressing the objective preconditions for the proletarian revolution; (c) regarding Marxism not only as a method but as an integral theory of nature, society and history.

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