Landmarks of Scientific Socialism

Anti-Duehring

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Landmarks of Scientific Socialism carries the subtitle Anti-Duehring and lists a translator's introduction and prefaces among its contents. The discussion identifies mechanical socialism as the enemy Engels was most anxious to dislodge, describing a supposedly perfect system capable of withstanding the ravages of time because it is founded on eternal principles of truth and justice.

The argument about borrowed money describes money received by the community for means of living as the social incarnation of human labor and the universal means of circulation. The saver, according to the text, is in a position to demand interest, so that specie functioning as money becomes a breeder of interest.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, and businessman who co-founded Marxist theory with Karl Marx, alongside whom he wrote The Communist Manifesto. Managing his family's cotton firm in Manchester, he funded Marx's work while producing his own sharp studies of industrial capitalism.