Anti DuhringFriedrich Engels
Anti Duhring
by Friedrich Engels · first published 1970
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…exchange containing within it the operation of the Law of Value. Almost all goods continue to be produced for the purpose of exchange value maximisation. Another is the removal of money, as Engels said in Anti-Duhring, "Money is already contained in embryo in the concept of value; it is value, only in developed form." This has not happened nor has there been any effort toward it. A possible replacement for money is…
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on “Who Owns Huawei?” ↗There's no need to imagine anything, here's the discussion Engels was having: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/letters/88_... He's replying to an aspiring author who sees Engels as an authority on the matter, and he's giving an account of the structure of a new genre of literature (realism) and using its greatest representative (Balzac) to do so. Presumably she takes Engels to be
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