Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy

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ISBN: 9780521761635 | 0521761638
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This book rejects the commonly encountered perception of Friedrich Engels as perpetuator of a "tragic deception" of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as "his master's voice". Engels's claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s to the very foundations of the Marxian enterprise, a contribution entailing not only the "vision" but some of the building blocks in the working out of that vision. Subsequently, he proved himself to be a sophisticated interpreter of the doctrine of historical materialism and an important contributor in his own right. This volume serves as a companion to Samuel Hollander's The Economics of Karl Marx (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Preface	p. xiii
Prolegomena	p. 1
Some Ground Clearing	p. 1
The Essays	p. 7
Engels's Early Contribution	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy 1: On the Classical Literature	p. 25
Outlines of a Critique II: Value and Distribution	p. 28
Outlines of a Critique III: On Malthus, Science, and Macroeconomic Instability	p. 35
The Holy Family: Some Brief Observations	p. 42
The Condition of the Working Class in England I: The Industrialization Process	p. 43
The Condition of the Working Class in England II: Earnings, Employment, and Population Growth	p. 45
The Condition of the Working Class in England Ill: The Cyclical Dimension, and the Industrial Reserve Army	p. 52
The Condition of the Working Class in England IV: Longer-Term Forecasts	p. 57
The Principles of Communism and the Communist Manifesto	p. 58
On Marx's Reception of the Outlines	p. 64
A Note on Sources	p. 73
Summary and Conclusion	p. 83
The Surplus-Value Doctrine, Rodbertus's Charge of Plagiarism, and the Transformation	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Marxian Surplus Value: Engels on Matters of Timing	p. 88
Rodbertus on Surplus Value	p. 93
Engels on Rodbertus's Surplus-Value Doctrine	p. 101
Engels on Marx's Innovation	p. 104
The Transformation and the "Prize Essay Competition"	p. 107
The Historical Transformation: A Theory of Economic History	p. 111
Concluding Remarks	p. 121
Economic Organization and the Price Mechanism	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
The Competitive Price Mechanism 1: General Principles	p. 126
The Competitive Price Mechanism II: Applications	p. 129
The Competitive Price Mechanism III: Objections to Rodbertus	p. 134
Communist Organization	p. 139
The Perspective on Robert Owen	p. 152
Communist Distribution	p. 154
From Capitalism to Communism: An Evolutionary Process	p. 158
The Rodbertus Proposals Misunderstood	p. 166
Historiographical Objections to Rodbertus's "Utopia"	p. 172
Concluding Remarks	p. 173
"Revisionism" I. Constitutional Reform versus Revolution	p. 176
Introduction	p. 176
Evidence from the 1840s: Chartism and Constitutional Reform	p. 177
Evidence from the 1850s: Universal Suffrage in France versus England	p. 190
Marx's Revisionism in the 1860s and Thereafter	p. 197
Engels's Revisionism, 1865-1894	p. 204
The 1895 Introduction to The Class Struggles in France	p. 213
Limits to Constitutional Revisionism	p. 216
Concluding Remarks	p. 227
"Revisionism" II. Social Reform	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
Principles of Reform: Early Statements	p. 230
On Marx's Revisionism: The 1860s and 1870s	p. 241
The Housing Question: 1872-1873	p. 248
Engels's Revisionism: 1872-1895	p. 253
Further Extensions: Unskilled Labor and the "New Unionism"	p. 264
A Grand Dilemma	p. 267
The Resolution: Economic Stagnation and Immigration	p. 272
Concluding Remarks	p. 276
The Engels-Marx Relation	p. 279
Introduction	p. 279
His Master's Voice?	p. 279
Engels's Contribution to Capital: Form or Substance?	p. 285
"More Royalist than the King"	p. 292
Engels's Self-Evaluation	p. 294
Engels as Editor	p. 303
A Methodological Overview314
Introduction	p. 314
The Unduly Neglected Price-Theoretical Component	p. 315
Engels's Applied Economics: The "Marxian Component"	p. 320
Political Economy in the Historical Context	p. 323
On the Late Formulation of Historical Materialism	p. 328
On the Behavioral Assumptions	p. 336
A Final Summation	p. 338
Epilogue: The Immediate Legacy	p. 341
Engels and Bernstein	p. 341
Engels and Kautsky	p. 352
Appendix A: Prolegomena: A Brief Chronology	p. 357
Appendix B: Chapter 5	p. 359
Engels and International Trade Policy	p. 359
Two Contemporary Estimates of the Real-Wage Trend	p. 361
Further Opinion Regarding the Late-Nineteenth-Century British Economy	p. 365
Appendix C: Chapter 7	p. 368
Marx and Engels on an Alternative Russian Option	p. 368
Bibliography of Works Cited	p. 373
Index	p. 393
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