Part II: Political Economy - Written mainly between June and August 1877.

Later, beginning in 1878, with the first separate edition, the first two chapters of this part were made into an independent general introduction to all three parts. Published as a series of articles entitled Herrn Eugen Dühring's Umwälzung der Philosophie in Vorwärts between January and May 1877. Part I: Philosophy - Written mainly between September 1876 and January 1877. The book breaks into three distinct parts: It would take over two years to complete. On May 28, he outlined to Marx the general strategy he planned to take against Dühring. So Engels put aside his work on what would later become known as the bookĭialectics of Nature. Marx replied the next day, saying Dühring himself should be sharply criticised. On May 24, 1876, Engels wrote Marx, saying there was cause to initiate a campaign against the spread of Dühring’s views. In February 1876, Engels fired an opening salvo with his Volksstaat article “Prussian Vodka in the German Reichstag”. On both February 1 and April 21, 1875, Liebknecht encouraged Engels to take Dühring head-on in the pages of the Volksstaat. In March 1874, the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party paper Volksstaat ran an anonymous article (actually penned by Bebel) favorably reviewing one of Dühring's books. Among his readers were included Johann Most, Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche, Eduard Bernstein - and even August Bebel for a brief period. German Social-Democrats were influenced by both his Kritische Geschichte der Nationalökonomie und des Sozialismus and Cursus der Philosophie als streng wissenschaftlicher Weltanschauung und Lebensgestaltung. He was largely forgotten until the mid-1870s, at which time Dühring entered Germany's political foreground. They exchanged a series of letters about him from January-March 1868.

Marx and Engels first became aware of Professor Dühring with his December 1867 review of Capital, published in Ergänzungsblätter. Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science, Progress Publishers, 1947 įormerly known as Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, Engels’ Anti-Dühring is a popular and enduring work which, as Engels wrote to Marx, was an attempt “to produce an encyclopaedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems.” Translated: by Emile Burns from 1894 edition Anti-Dühring Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science

Socialism by Friedrich Engels