200 godina Friedricha Engelsa
Bicentennial of Friedrich Engels
Contributor(s): Boris Perić (Translator), Maroje Višić (Editor), Miroslav Artić (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Christian Theology and Religion, History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Semiology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Sociology, Economic history, Political history, Social history, Modern Age, Theology and Religion, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, Politics and religion, Politics and society, Family and social welfare, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx; working class; precariat; neoliberalism; political economy; housing and living conditions; Marxism; scientific utopian socialism; revolution; Capitalism; peasantry; religion; Christianity; family; private property;
Summary/Abstract: This anthology book is published on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Friedrich Engels, an exceptional thinker and theorist of the revolution. Editors Maroje Višić and Miroslav Artić gathered renowned domestic and international scientists who tried to reevaluate Engels' works and his scientific contribution. The idea behind the book is to point out the everlasting value and significance of Engels’ revolutionary philosophy. Contributing authors offered analytical reading of Engels' ideas, addressing pressing issues in economics, politics, religion, feminism, ideology and in other segments of contemporary society. The papers in an anthology are organized under the chapters: The Reception of Engel’s Philosophy, Actuality of Engels Today with subchapters on working-class and precariat, peasantry as the subject of change, early Christianity as an inspiration; and the last chapter is Revalorization of Family and State. The first chapter tackles the questions if Engels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist who contributed to the banalization of Marx. It then investigates reception of Engels’ philosophy in ex-Yugoslavia specifically and in philosophical theory in general. The second chapter demonstrates actuality and relevance of Engels today by discussing the topics of working-class and precariat, by making comparison between early industrial society and contemporary society and by tracking development of socialism from utopia to a science. Chapter also deals on the peasantry whose role as a subject of change is thoroughly problematized. Special part of the chapter is dedicated to the influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea and to what extent original Christian community served affected the development of Engels’ thought. Final chapter brings papers that, under new circumstances, re-examine the understanding of the state-family relation and their dynamic. This comprehensive anthology attempted to revalorize and appraise Engels’ own contribution to science and philosophy 200 years after his birth. For this it was necessary to “divorce” Engels from Marx so that the fallacy of statement that Engels was second violin to Marx becomes striking.Chapter one tackle the question of whetherEngels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist to contribute to the banalization of Marx.= Engels' reception is then examined both in the former Yugoslavia and in philosophical theory in general.Special part of the chapter is dedicated to influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea. That is, to what extent the examples of the original Christian communities influenced the development of Engels' thought
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-953-188-484-6
- Page Count: 432
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: Croatian, Serbian
Friedrich Engels kao prvi marksist? O pozadini i posljedicama utopije o budućem »carstvu slobode«
Friedrich Engels kao prvi marksist? O pozadini i posljedicama utopije o budućem »carstvu slobode«
(Friedrich Engels as First Marxist? On the background and consequences of utopia in the future “realm of freedom”)
- Author(s):Claus Thomasberger
- Contributor(s):Boris Perić (Translator)
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):National Economy, Economic history, Political history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, 19th Century
- Page Range:13-32
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Engels; Marx; banalisation of Marx; Anti-Dühring; realm of freedom; neoliberalism;
- Summary/Abstract:Engels, by a positivistically abbreviated interpretation of the dialectical method, is thought to have contributed to the banalization of Marx’s thought. Engels himself is somewhat to blame for such a view of his role, for he described his relationship to Marx in terms that can very well be interpreted in that light. It is significant that he, who nevertheless gave impetus, in later years avoided dealing independently with the history of economic thought, economic liberalism, and even economic-theoretical issues in general. This is supported by the fact that in “Anti-Dühring”, which I deal with in more detail below, he left the writing of relevant economic-theoretical passages to Marx.
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Autonomija u simbiozi. Friedrich Engels i kritika političke ekonomije
Autonomija u simbiozi. Friedrich Engels i kritika političke ekonomije
(Autonomy in Symbiosis. Friedrich Engels and Critique of Political Economy)
- Author(s):Alpar Lošonc
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):National Economy, Economic history, Political history, Marxism, Political economy, Politics and society, 19th Century, Socio-Economic Research
- Page Range:33-65
- No. of Pages:33
- Keywords:Engels; political economy; commodity production; housing issue;
- Summary/Abstract:Engels was much more than an interpreter-mediator of Marx, and cannot be reduced to the subject of deforming the writer of Capital: we want to show this on crucial ground, where it flares up the leading thought of Marx. It is a critique of political economy. Unlike liberal conception of inscribed boundaries in the social “body”, namely, for unlike the regime of establishing boundaries between politics and economics (which ends with the denial of the existence of a politics in the sphere of production), the critique of political economy points to the intersection of politics and economy at the level of totality, and finds politics in the deepest layers of the economy, denying its neutrality. And exactly in this domain Engels’s constitutive approach should be shown. It is a contribution that is dependent on Marx’s efforts, but became an integral part of the endeavor of two theoreticians. Our paper analyzes three issues: the emergence of the English proletariat, the housing issue, and simple commodity production. We show contradictions in Engels’ discourse, but we prove that Engels did not give up on the revolution that would transcend capitalism and that he remained faithful to this project.
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Socijalna filozofija Friedricha Engelsa - Dijalektički empirizam i historijski materijalizam
Socijalna filozofija Friedricha Engelsa - Dijalektički empirizam i historijski materijalizam
(Social Philosophy of Friedrich Engels - Dialectical Empiricism and Historical Materialism)
- Author(s):Ankica Čakardić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Social Philosophy, Political history, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Politics and society, Human Ecology, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:67-86
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:dialectics of nature; eco-Marxism; historical materialism; unitary theory; Engels; Vogel;
- Summary/Abstract:In The Poverty of Theory (1978) E. P. Thompson after a long period of theoretical silence in Marxist literature – especially “Western Marxism” – brings Friedrich Engels back in the very center of historical-materialist studies. Even though Thompson’s primary preoccupation is focused on a critique of Louis Althusser’s structuralist Marxism, he will simultaneously try to defend historical materialism from abstract and ahistorical theories by using Engels’ empirical template. Following Thompson, and in a similar vein, Marxist economist Paul Sweezy, in his introduction to his Four Lectures on Marxism, will strongly emphasize the importance of Engels’ approach to the dialectics and his critique of mechanistic and reductionist theoretical procedures. In this paper, we will try to briefly examine mentioned epistemological discussions inclined by Engels’ philosophy, but also take into account some of the recent eco-Marxist (John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett, Elmar Altvater) and feminist analyses (Lise Vogel, Michèle Barrett) which affirm but also criticize certain aspects of Engels’s social philosophy. In a way, we will try to give an overview and examine Engels’ presence in contemporary philosophy and theory in general, on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Recepcija Engelsove filozofije u nas
Recepcija Engelsove filozofije u nas
(Reception of Engel’s Philosophy in Croatia)
- Author(s):Zvonko Šundov
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Metaphysics, Economic history, Political history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, 19th Century
- Page Range:87-97
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; metaphysics; dialectics; dialectical materialism; Marxism;
- Summary/Abstract:This article gives an overview of the reception of Engels’ philosophy in the “Zagreb School of Practice”. The essential moments of this reception consist in pointing out certain (more or less) differences in the philosophical views of Marx and Engels (authors of Anti–Düring, The Dialectic of Nature and the Writings of Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy). Predrag Vranicki, Gajo Petrović, Milan Kangrga and Lino Veljak in various ways critically analyze the contradictions in Engels’ conceptions, especially regarding the dialectic of nature, and consider Engels’ influence on the formation of orthodox Marxism.
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Engels — leksikografska bilješka
Engels — leksikografska bilješka
(Engels — Lexicographical Note)
- Author(s):Miroslav Artić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Political history, Social history, Croatian Literature, German Literature, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, Politics and society, 19th Century, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Theory of Literature
- Page Range:99-111
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Engels; encyclopedia; reception; socialist culture; political sign; socialist worldview; values;
- Summary/Abstract:The paper aims to examine how Friedrich Engels was assessed in encyclopedias, professional lexicons and philosophy textbooks at the time when Croatia was a constitutive part of the former Yugoslavia. The methodological basis for the perception of Engels in Croatia is positioned within the framework of a predetermined concept according to which socialist culture was to be built in Yugoslavia, in all its parts, in the spirit of the ‘socialist worldview’ asserting ‘socialist values’. (Viskovic 2001). The aim of this paper is to evaluate this specific political and cultural period, marked by systematic attempts to create a comprehensive encyclopedic knowledge that would shape and finally define the dominant cultural and political sign empowered by Engels’ work. At the same time, its symbolic power had the task of illuminating the direction for the construction of complex Yugoslav socialist culture. This is only a sketch, but also an incentive for a more complex research of this unique conceptual project on the construction of socialist culture.
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Strateško istraživanje u doba društvene krize - Mladi Friedrich Engels u Manchesteru
Strateško istraživanje u doba društvene krize - Mladi Friedrich Engels u Manchesteru
(Strategic Research in the Age of Social Crises: Young Friedrich Engels in Manchester)
- Author(s):Michael Brie
- Contributor(s):Boris Perić (Translator)
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Political history, Social history, Marxism, Labor relations, Politics and society, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
- Page Range:117-136
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Engels; Manchester; social revolution; communist international; discursive narratives; Engels as Marxist;
- Summary/Abstract:In the article I discuss the process of Engels’ search for a social alternative in the conditions of the pre-revolutionary crisis that struck Europe in the early 1940s. Twenty-two-year-old Engels became enthralled with it when he arrived in London in November, 1842. He was young, rebellious, of a brilliant mind and exploratory spirit. He belonged to a generation whose youth coincided with the culmination of the crisis of the Restoration period. Against this background, I want to look at the period that Engels spent between November 1842 and April 1845 in Manchester, where he arrived from his parents’ home in Barmen.
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Usporedba nekada i sada - Zašto je Položaj radničke klase u Engleskoj nakon 175 godina u mnogočemu aktualna kritika današnjice
Usporedba nekada i sada - Zašto je Položaj radničke klase u Engleskoj nakon 175 godina u mnogočemu aktualna kritika današnjice
(A Comparison Between Then and Now Why is The Condition of Working Class in England in Many Ways an Actual Critique of Contemporaneity?)
- Author(s):Maroje Višić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Architecture, Political history, Social history, Labor relations, Politics and society, Comparative politics, 19th Century, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
- Page Range:137-178
- No. of Pages:42
- Keywords:Engels; 200th anniversary of birth; working class; precariat; communal living; Amazon; WeWork; Google; maternity leave; technology; food insecurity; capsule hotels; smart cities and neighbourhoods;
- Summary/Abstract:Author revisits Engels’ study The Condition of the Working Class in England on the occasion of Engels’ 200th anniversary of birth. I examine and compare similarities of what was written 175 ago with contemporaneity. In this endeavour I rely on the same sources as Engels did: newspapers articles, official documents, reports, statistics and scientific studies. Hence the comparison can be made through examining topics such as: precariat and proletariat, migrants and their contribution to the functioning of (neo)capitalism, pregnancy and maternity discrimination, accommodation of workers and working conditions, housing and living conditions, the impact of the technological principle on the architecture and design of cities and districts, starvation and food insecurity and through artificial division of working and leisure time. I do not argue that things have remained completely unchanged. However, my examination reveals that in spite of the advancement in the past 175 years, same conditions that Engels described prevail mutatis mutandis today.
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Aktualnost Engelsovog teksta - Razvitak socijalizma od utopije do nauke
Aktualnost Engelsovog teksta - Razvitak socijalizma od utopije do nauke
(The relevance of Engels’ text “The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science”)
- Author(s):Vera A. Vratuša Žunjić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Economic history, Political history, Social history, German Literature, Marxism, Political economy, Politics and society, Comparative politics, 19th Century, Socio-Economic Research
- Page Range:179-207
- No. of Pages:29
- Keywords:utopian socialism; scientific socialism; capitalism; idealism; old and new materialism; Hegel’s dialectics; new–materialistically inverted dialectics;
- Summary/Abstract:This work examines the actuality of Engels’ text The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science in the first fifth of the twenty–first century, taking into account the historical experience acquired within the hundred and forty years after its first release in 1880. The basic method used in the preparation of this work is the analysis of the content of Engels’ writings and its contextualisation within the historical specific social economic circumstances during the time of Engels’ life and today. The main finding of this work is that actuality of Engel’s text Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science rests on the continual existence of the capitalist mode of production internal contradictions, which, according to Engels, utopian socialism overlooked, but which scientific socialism has discovered through new historical materialist and dialectical study of class conflicts throughout human history. The main contradiction between the only socially usable production forces and private appropriation of the unapid for surplus labor of non possesing productive classes on the anarchic world market by the classes who posses the means of production, has not been overcome until our days. In the world proportions there still did not happen expected realisation of the revolutionary action of the exploited class of hired workers to create conditions for the leap into the realm of freedom, that is the taking of control of freely united producers over their own product. Elements of the utopianism of Engels’ writing originate from demoralizing pressure of the devastating consequences of the capitalist production mode, which reduces the conviction of potential subjects of revolutionary class alliance in the possibility of achieving the socialist “realm of freedom”. On the other hand, the author points out in this paper that in the case that there does not come to revolutionary leap from the realm of necessity of the anarchic capitalist merchandise production into the realm of freedom through the self–conscious and self organised revolutionary activity of all exploited and opressed classes, there wil come to the self–annihilation of the planet earth through human destructive, alienated and alienating action of acumulation of capital for the sake of acumulation, long before this annihilation was prediceted by Imanuel Kant and Laplace through the natural evolution of solar system.
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Engels između utopijskog i znanstvenog socijalizma
Engels između utopijskog i znanstvenog socijalizma
(Engels Between Utopian and Scientific Socialism)
- Author(s):Kazimir Majorinc
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Economic history, Political history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, Politics and society, 19th Century, History of Communism
- Page Range:209-218
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Marxism; utopian socialism; scientific socialism; Engels; the collapse of capitalism;
- Summary/Abstract:The article starts from the thesis that one of the main causes of the problems of building socialism in the 20th century is the neglect of morality in classical Marxism, analyses this neglect through a comparison of utopian and scientific socialism, and briefly follows Engels’ development from utopian socialism to scientific socialism and back. The conclusion is that the lack of morality in classical Marxism is not accidental, but that it is precisely this property that makes it untrue, but also an extremely effective socialist ideology at a time of the great crisis of capitalism. Such an understanding of Marxism is consistent with the important Marxist idea that the purpose of ideologies is not to be true, but to strengthen the economic system. In this sense, Marxism is an ideology of the collapse of capitalism.
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Fridrih Engels i seljaštvo
Fridrih Engels i seljaštvo
(Friedrich Engels and Peasantry)
- Author(s):Srđan Lj. Šljukić, Marica N. Šljukić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Agriculture, Economic history, Political history, Social history, Marxism, Politics and society, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century, Socio-Economic Research
- Page Range:221-238
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; peasantry; revolution; rural commune; social democracy; sociology;
- Summary/Abstract:While K. Marx, when it is about agrarian and rural, mostly dealt with the questions of commercial agriculture, like land rent, work force, etc, his associate F. Engels focused on social position, fate and role of peasantry in (past and expected) revolutions. In this paper we give a review of Engels’s views on peasantry, with an analysis and a critique. With his descriptions of the social position of the German, the French and the Russian peasantry, and of rural commune as one of the traditional institutions of rural society, Engels contributed to sociology. His claims that peasantry must disappear and that it is not capable to protect and promote their own interests, exert a significant influence upon the political practice in the socialist societies of the XX century.
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Zemljani put revolucije. Seljačko pitanje u Engelsovim kasnim radovima
Zemljani put revolucije. Seljačko pitanje u Engelsovim kasnim radovima
(The Revolution through Soil. The Question of Peasantry in Engels’ Later Works)
- Author(s):Bojan Vranić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Agriculture, Political history, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Politics and society, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century, Socio-Economic Research
- Page Range:239-254
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Engels; property; culture; the question of peasantry; revolution; representation;
- Summary/Abstract:The paper deals with the peasant question in the socialist thought of the second half 19th century, with special reference to the work of Friedrich Engels. In the classic socialist literature, the peasant question has long been marked as a marginal question of property, as can best be seen from Marx’s analysis in Louis Bonaparte’s Eighteenth Brimer. Almost half a century later, Engels approaches the peasant question from another angle, considering the problem of small peasants as a cultural, not just an economic problem. The paper will show that Engels’ analysis of the peasant question opened new avenues for socialist theory, which leads to a revision of the classical doctrine of the proletarian revolution and suggests an evolutionary path of social change.
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Engelsova misao o (ranom) hrišćanstvu kao preludijum za sociologiju religije
Engelsova misao o (ranom) hrišćanstvu kao preludijum za sociologiju religije
(Engels’ thought of (Early) Christianity as a Prelude to the Sociology of Religion)
- Author(s):Nataša Jovanović Ajzenhamer
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Christian Theology and Religion, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy of Religion, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
- Page Range:257-286
- No. of Pages:30
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; Early Christianity; Sociology of Religion; Marxist Theory; History of Sociological Theories;
- Summary/Abstract:Engels’s study of the origins and ethics of early Christianity is an autonomous sphere of study that is independent of his works with Karl Marx. In several stages, Engels engaged himself in a critical study of historical sources on Christianity, as well as in the study of the revolutionary potential of religious movements in different historical periods. In this paper, we will first reconstruct Engels’ thought of Christianity, and then we will answer the question of whether Engels’ religious studies can be included in the corpus of research of the sociology of religion? The benefits of this way of designing the research problem are twofold: on the one hand, the history of the sociology of religion may pay more attention to Engels’s work and conclusions, while, on the other, it draws attention to another relatively neglected aspect of independent Engels study.
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Engelsovo »Rano kršćanstvo«: model kako proleterskim pokretima mijenjati društvo
Engelsovo »Rano kršćanstvo«: model kako proleterskim pokretima mijenjati društvo
(Engels’ “The Early Christianity”: a Model for changing Society via Proletarian Revolutions)
- Author(s):Ivan Markešić
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Christian Theology and Religion, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy of Religion, Politics and religion, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
- Page Range:287-306
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; Bruno Bauer; early Christianity; proletarian movements; socialism;
- Summary/Abstract:Friedrich Engels was philosopher, social theoretician, historian and journalist but also an incorrigible and an incorruptible heretic. In the society of religious-ideological obscurations he sought for truth and equality. To this end, relying on Bruno Bauer’s work on the historical origins of Christianity, he makes a comparison of the origins of the newly formed proletarian movement with the emergence of early Christianity, with the social, political and religious reasons for its emergence and survival as well as with the historical circumstances in which it from the unwanted became the desired state religion of the Roman Empire. With this text Engels wanted to sensitize so called “Christian” philosophical and theological public for his idea of creating a just society by the actions of emerging proletarian movements that were similar to the first steps of Christianity as a religion of slaves, freemen, oppressed and disenfranchised. However, societies of “real socialism” shows how great Engels’ illusion was.
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Friedrich Engels, reformacija i rano kršćanstvo - Kratki doprinos za dijalog marksista i kršćana
Friedrich Engels, reformacija i rano kršćanstvo - Kratki doprinos za dijalog marksista i kršćana
(Friedrich Engels, Reformation and Early Christianity - A Short Contribution to the Dialogue between Marxists and Christians)
- Author(s):Mislav Miholek
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy of Religion, 16th Century, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
- Page Range:307-346
- No. of Pages:40
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx; Marxism; Christianity; reformation; Lutheranism; Calvinism; anabaptism; dialogue; history of the church;
- Summary/Abstract:This paper presents several topics related to the person of Friedrich Engels. It shows the basics of the critique of the religion by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Also, the paper presents the historical relationship between Christianity and Marxism, the creation and development of dialogue between Christians and Marxists in the Sixties of the Twentieth Century around the world and in Croatia. Part of the paper is devoted to Engels‘ thoughts about the Reformation and the reformers like Martin Luther, Jean Calvin and Thomas Müntzer, as well as Engels‘ relationship to early Christianity. The work is based on various sources, works of theologians of different traditions, philosophers and sociologists.
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Fridrih Engels o porodici, privatnoj svojini i državi
Fridrih Engels o porodici, privatnoj svojini i državi
(Friedrich Engels on Family, Private Property and the State)
- Author(s):Duško Radosavljević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Social Philosophy, Political history, Social history, Ancient World, German Literature, 19th Century Philosophy, Politics and society, Social development, Family and social welfare, 19th Century
- Page Range:349-366
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Friedrich Engels; family; private property; state;
- Summary/Abstract:Questioning the views in the work of Friedrich Engels, “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”, is the basic task of our effort to try to point out elements that are already known in the studies of this author, but also to get to know what are the moments from this well-known work, which seem different today as opposed to the period when Engels wrote it. Because, Engels greatly contributed to illuminating the genesis of the state, and the perspective of its development. Of course, considering the phenomena of culture and civilization, letters, analysis of the gentile order, its disintegration, and the formation of a new social organization - the state. This famous and influential book meaningfully describes, analyzes and gives a kind of synthesis of some of the most important phenomena in the development of human society, and the inevitable categories from the domain of social sciences and humanities as well.
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Kritika kritične kritike i Sveta porodica: Protiv potiskivanja — za povratak zbilji
Kritika kritične kritike i Sveta porodica: Protiv potiskivanja — za povratak zbilji
(Critique of Critical Criticism and Holy Family Against Repression – For Return to Reality)
- Author(s):Katarina Peović
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Social Philosophy, Political history, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Politics and society, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, History of Communism
- Page Range:367-407
- No. of Pages:41
- Keywords:materialism; Idealism; Zoran Milanović; repression; “ideal cross section”; modernity; technology;
- Summary/Abstract:The paper deals with a relation between historical materialism and idealism – while proving idealism to be a profoundly conservative point of view – proving the thesis through an example of the contemporary political discourse of Zoran Milanović, and his so-called “liberal progressiveness”. Holy Family – Critique of Critical Critique can be read via contemporary examples that supplement materialistic interpretation of liberalism/idealism with the psychoanalytical interpretation of suppression of class conflict. A nature of liberal interpretation of the world vis-à-vis materialistic insights (undoubtedly and with clearness) epistemological and not only by facts – can be seen from The Condition of the Working Class in England, a study of young Engels that will be taken as a foundation of the materialistic understanding of the modernity and related figure of an unaccommodated man. A fundamental possibility of an overcoming of dialectical paradox in the figure of a proletarian as an unaccommodated man (while avoiding idealistic “displacements”), can be found in the development of technology as a possibility of overcoming of the capitalistic mode of production, as a foundation of development and personal freedom that can be achieved only in the community.
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Što nas je Engels naučio? Prilog marksističko–feminističkoj kritici braka i obitelji
Što nas je Engels naučio? Prilog marksističko–feminističkoj kritici braka i obitelji
(What did Engels Teach Us? A Contribution to the Marxist-feminist Critique of Marriage and the Family)
- Author(s):Petra Kurtović
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Social Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Politics and society, Family and social welfare, Social Norms / Social Control
- Page Range:409-422
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:matrimony; family; monogamy bourgeoise; private property; oppression;
- Summary/Abstract:Reflecting on the contemporary society from a Marxist-feminist angle with a focus on the question of women’s oppression, one of the key questions that must be tackled is the structure/nature of the family and marriage. Because of the very significant, if not pivotal, role of the family in capitalism, contemporary conservative currents insist on family more than anything as a nuclear unit of society, where monogamy (of course, only for women) and heteronormativity play major roles. In addition, traditional marriage is the only desirable form of marriage. The position of women in society can be seen from their position in the family, that is, the position of married women. To illustrate this, in this paper we will try, mostly by using Engels’ findings, to explain when and why monogamy and marriage occur and how the family developed. After that we will try to show, based on the work by some socialists and anarchists, and further on Engels, the social basis of the subordination of women in marriage and the family. Finally, through authors like Barret, point out that family is not essentially and naturally given, it is not always the same, on the contrary – it depends on specific social relations. From such historicalmaterialist point of view, marriage and family are revealed as social rather than natural units and as bourgeois ideals.
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Izvatci iz recenzija
Izvatci iz recenzija
(Excerpts from reviews)
- Author(s):Lev Kreft, Goran Gretić, Zvonko Posavec
- Language:Croatian
- Subject(s):Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Political economy, Book-Review
- Page Range:429-431
- No. of Pages:3
- Keywords:Lev Kreft; Goran Grentić; Zvonko Posavec; Friedrich Engels; Marxism; 19th century;
- Summary/Abstract:Review of: Lev Kreft - Dvjesto godina Friedricha Engelsa Goran Gretić -Dvjesto godina Friedricha Engelsa Zvonko Posavec -Dvjesto godina Friedricha Engelsa
- Price: 4.50 €