(YOUNG) COMRADE ENGELS, A KISS TO YOU - Negri

[Charles Brown]

Engels was a major in the artillery fighting with the revolutionaries in 1848 (?). He wrote many encyclopedia articles on miltary science and the history of force. When he discusses "force" it is as an expert.

Charles Brown


>>> Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> 08/23/99 10:48AM >>>
What is meant by the reference to "the general"?  Engels was very interested in military affairs, so much so that some of his articles were assumed to have been written by a real general.  The tone of the article suggests a bit of contempt in the name, or am I misreading Negri?


> (YOUNG) COMRADE ENGELS, A KISS TO YOU
> Toni Negri
>
> Althusser, in one brilliant writing from 1982 ("About marxist thought",
> published in "Futur AntTrieur, special number "About Althusser", Paris,
> L'
> Harmattan, 1993) talks about a deep equivocal in the basis of friendship
> and
> collaboration between these two men [Marx/Engels] and looks with
> rancorous
> irony the works of Engels, "the General" (as Marx used to call him). It
> was
> Engels who created that "only thought", the "marxist thought" or
> "dialectic
> materialism"

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