Friedrich Engels at 200 Revisiting His Maiden Paper “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” (1844)

Heinz D. Kurz ()
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Heinz D. Kurz: University of Graz

A chapter in 200 Years of Friedrich Engels, 2022, pp 9-35 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides, first, a critical account of Friedrich Engels’ maiden paper Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1844) in which he launched a frontal assault on political economy, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo. The paper had a deep impact on Karl Marx and prompted him to turn to political economy. This chapter then traces the impact of the essay on Marx: Which of Engels’ views did Marx adopt and retain in his mature writings, which did he modify and which did he abandon? In addition, this chapter has a brief look at Engels as the editor of volumes II and III of Capital. Finally, this chapter asks whether some of the shortcomings of the Marx-Engels intellectual and political project have their roots in a neglect of what the classical economists had to say about human self-seeking behaviour and how to contain the dark sides of it.

Keywords: Competition; Crises; Just society; Markets; Man of system; Marx; Karl; Private property; Ricardo; David; Smith; Adam; Technical progress; A13; B12; B14; B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10115-1_2

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