the origin of the family by friedrich engels

The fact that Marx and Engels continue to be controversial figures easily stands in the way of balanced conclusions. Politically, too, this is a fraught issue.

Intellectually, it is counter-intuitive to assume that the authors of a worldview defining production and class as history’s motive forces could have nurtured racist assumptions in any serious way. The subject of Marx, Engels and racism remains a difficult one. My conclusion on the issue at hand will be that both men were racializing human collectives but that they did not see completely eye to eye on the question of the emergence of race. Let me state at the outset that I will not take a position in the old debate about the degree of identity of views between Marx and Engels this article is not intended as a contribution to that debate. Whereas formal definitions and theories of race indeed cannot be found in their writings, their scattered comments add up to quite a coherent position on the question.

On the contrary, I will argue that this common interpretation means to miss the serious points they were making. It is tempting to assume that they were applying the term loosely and that they were only unthinkingly repeating the stereotypes and prejudices of the day. Marx and Engels applied the term Rasse, or the English race, to a wide variety of human collectives – from skin-colour groups to ethnicities, nations and even to social classes.

Their numerous horrendous comments on Slavs, ‘Negroes’, Bedouins, Jews, Chinese and many others are well known, but the logic behind these comments has not been sufficiently examined. O元03622W Page_number_confidence 95.24 Pages 296 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20190914165845 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 530 Scandate 20190912025500 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog trent Scribe3_search_id 0116403810587 Tts_version 3.This article explores the racist components in the thought of Karl Marx and of Friedrich Engels.

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The origin of the family by friedrich engels