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Engels and Marx as Philosophical Comrades

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Engels and Marx as Philosophical Comrades

By Ben Burgis

This guest essay was kindly contributed by Sam Badger. You can (and should) read him at his own Substack, where he covers philosophy and socialist politics.

In the mainstream intellectual history of Marxism, Karl Marx was the great genius and Friedrich Engels was a sort of philosophical sidekick who was around to edit Marx’s works and occasionally bounce…

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