Anti-Duhring

A classic of Marxism, Anti-Duhring was highly recommended by Lenin as a 'text book' of scientific socialism. It was originally written as a polemic against Eugen Duhring, a German revisionist who challenged the basic ideas of Marxism by counterposing his own 'scientific' theories within the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Very reluctantly, Engels was forced to take up these ideas and in doing so explained in the clearest fashion the revolutionary theories of Marxism.

The original title was Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science, but it became popularly known as Anti-Duhring. It was the first popular exposition of Marxist theory as a whole and the titles of the three parts philosophy, political economy, socialism are enough to indicate the broad scope of this famous work.

Originally published in parts in the Leipzig Vorwarts, starting in 1877, and in book form in 1878, Anti- Duhring set out to demolish the 'system creating' claims of Duhring. Whilst Duhring himself is now a completely forgotten figure, this polemic has been a masterpiece of Marxist literature for more than 130 years and served to educate numerous generations in the fundamental ideas of scientific socialism.

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