Re: [Marxism] A communist and a gentleman

[chegitz guevara <absynthe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know Pat is quoting someone else.

Personally, I found Anti-Dühring to be a pretty easy read.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Pat Costello <pt_costello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A reveiw of a new biography of Friedrich Engels
>
> Marx's right-hand man was an industrialist who liked hunting, drinking and 
> women. Roy Hattersley savours the irony
>
> My boast that I am among the small number of people who have started to read 
> Friedrich Engels' Anti-Dühring has to be qualified by the admission that I am 
> also among the even smaller number of people who have not finished reading 
> it. So I was distressed to discover, from Tristram Hunt's new biography of 
> Engels, that what I found to be an unintelligible book is a "pacey, engaging 
> and comprehensible explanation of the science of Marxism".

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