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Frederick Engels: a biography
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Published January 1, 1972
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August 27, 2024
A must read. Gemkow is the mind behind the Marx and Engels archive and much of what you see today in scholarship of those archives from the likes of pop Marxist's like Saito are revealed to be utterly baseless in their relationship to Engels and Marx's thought and furthermore the modern neoliberal incorporation of materialist terms into their nihilism around subverting capitalist realism are shown for what they are. It's no coincidence all of this bullshit revisionism of Marx contra the failed 2016 socialist resurfacing came about within months of Gemkow being buried. Sickening what is happening in scholarship today, but I'm glad I read this and got to see how bad it really is for revisionism in the English Marxist corpus.
Perhaps it is unnecessary to justify the lives of the progenitors of a movement, but what strikes me as so unconscionable is that "the word" continues to be desecrated and twisted and reified in every which way but revolutionarily. So I'm staking not a religious like reverence for the manuscript or the literal meaning of things, but a call to appreciate for once the historical flow... I guess what this means to me is that there really is still something of value to the worker in not just the work of Marx and Engels, but their friendship and lives as propellants of the march of man against the frictions of inequity and impropriety.
Perhaps it is unnecessary to justify the lives of the progenitors of a movement, but what strikes me as so unconscionable is that "the word" continues to be desecrated and twisted and reified in every which way but revolutionarily. So I'm staking not a religious like reverence for the manuscript or the literal meaning of things, but a call to appreciate for once the historical flow... I guess what this means to me is that there really is still something of value to the worker in not just the work of Marx and Engels, but their friendship and lives as propellants of the march of man against the frictions of inequity and impropriety.
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