1873
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May
to 1883, Engels works on "Dialects of
Nature". He gives a dialectical materialist
summary of the major achievements in natural
science and criticizes metaphysical and idealist
views. The book remains unfinished. |
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End
of Oct. to Nov. 20, Engels stays in
Engelskirchen in connection with his mother's
dead. |
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Oct.
31, Nov. 2 and 5 1873, "Volksstaadt"
prints Engels' articles on Spanish revolution,
entitled "Bakuninists at Work". |
1873
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Dec.,
Marx' "Political Indifferentism" and
Engels' "On Authority" appear in Italian
Yearly "Almanacco Repubblicano". The
articles show the harm of anarchists theories to
the working-class movement. |
1874
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Summer,
Engels prepares a third edition of his
"Peasant War in Germany". He writes a
special addendum to his preface to the second
edition, 1870. Later, Lenin describes the ideas in
this addendum as instructive for "German
working-class movement, which had become strong,
practically and politically". |
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June
1874-April 1875, in a series of articles
entitled, "Fluchtlingsliterature", in
Volksstaat magazine, Engels analyses the latest
developments and trends in European revolutionary
movement, |
1875
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March
18-28, in a letter to August Bebel, leader
of Social-Democratic Workers' Party of Germany,
Engels sets forth Marx' and his own stand on the
merger of the two workers' organizations in
Germany, Social-Democratic Workers' Party (Eisenachers)
and General Association of German Workers (Lassalleans).
Engels sharply criticizes the draft program, and
the system of Lassallean dogmas in contains. |
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May
5, Marx sends to Germany his critical
remarks on the draft program drawn up for the
forthcoming unity congress of Eisenachers and
Lassalleans in Gotha. Subsequently, the document
came to be known as "Critique of Gotha
Program" and was first published on Engels'
initiative in 1891. |
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May
22-27, Gotha Unity Congress at which
Socialist Workers' Party of Germany was set up. |
1876
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May
to June 1878, Engels works on "Herr
Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science",
subsequently known as "Anti-Duhring",
producing a thorough exposition of Marxist theory.
Initially, the book was published as a series of
articles in "Vorwarts", from January to
December 1877, and from May to July 1878. In 1878,
it appeared in Leipzig under separate cover. |
1877
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Marx
writes Chapter X (From Critical History) for part
2 of Engels' "Anti-Duhring". Marx
criticizes Duhring's view on the history of
political economy. |
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Mid-June,
At the request of Wolhelm Bracke, Engels writes a
short biography of Karl Marx for "Volks-Kalender".
It was published in 1878. |
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