Anti-Duhring

📕 This translation of Frederick Engels's "Anti-Duhring" has been made from the third German edition (1894). Those parts of the book from which the author subse­quently composed his pamphlet "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", namely "Introduction", Chapter I, "General"; Part III, "Socialism", Chapter I, "Historical", and Chapter II, "Theoretical", are reproduced from the autho­rised English translation of the pamphlet. Words and passages in the pamphlet which were not included in the above-mentioned parts of "Anti-Duhring" are here given in square brackets. The most important formula­tions from the extant rough copy of the "Introduction" are given in footnotes, as are certain passages in the pamphlet which differ from the corresponding passages of the original German edition of "Anti-Duhring". The book is preceded by the author's prefaces to the first three German editions. Appended to it are: the "Old Preface" afterwards as­signed by Engels to the materials on the "Dialectics of Nature" then in preparation; selected excerpts from his pre­paratory writings from "Anti-Duhring"; the article "Infantry Tactics, Derived from Material Causes", and the "Notes" by Engels to "Anti-Duhring". The book is supplied with notes, a subject and a name index and an index of authorities. Marx's "Capital", Vol.I, is quoted from the Moscow English edition of 1974 except where the text differs from that of the second (1872) German edition cited by Engels.