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).
Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of
Toronto, Canada, where he served on the faculty from 1963 to 1998, and is currently
affiliated with the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor
Hollander holds an honorary Doctorate of Law from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada,
and was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France
from 1999 to 2000. A leading historian of economic thought, his major books have been
devoted to studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Robert Malthus,
Jean-Baptiste Say and Karl Marx.
Table of Contents
Prolegomena;
1. Engels' early contribution;
2. The surplus-value doctrine, Rodbertus' charge of plagiarism, and the
transformation;
3. Economic organization, income distribution, and the price mechanism;
4. Revisionism I: constitutional reform versus revolution;
5. Revisionism II: social reform;
6. The Engels–Marx relationship;
7. A methodological overview;
Epilogue: the immediate legacy.
454 pages, Hardcover