From: Dogan Goecmen (Dogangoecmen@AOL.COM)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 12:32:52 EST
Jerry, I thank you very much for your comments. I am conscious about Engels' originality before he met Marx and after Marx's death. So for example his 'Outline to the Critique of Political Economy'. Where is the philosophy of dialectical materialism, as distinct from historical materialism, to be found in the writings of Marx? It is certainly true that Engels held some of the perspectives of what came to be called dialectical materialism (as, for instance, explained in _Dialectics of Nature_) but that does not mean that Marx shared those perspectives. I take these concepts as requiring one other. Dialectical materialism taken as a concept of epistemology (it is more than that) is prerequisite for historical materialism. Many elements of this epistemology (dialectical and materialist) may be found in the Holy Family, German Ideology, the Poverty of Philosophy and Anti-Dühring. I see what Engels says about natural philosophical aspects of dialectical materialism Dialectic of Nature in the tradition of these grand co-works of Marx's and Engels'. I do not deny that there are also important differences between them but I am not sure whether they can be defined as contradition as many scholars saw it in the past. Fraternite, Dogan
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