lecture: Thinking about Friedrich Engels

17.03.2020
19:00

Café Buch Oase, Kassel

Thinking about Friedrich Engels occasion of his 200. Birthday - Dr. Gert Meyer (Marburg) Lecture and discussion Tuesday, 17. March 2020, 19.00 PM Café Book Oasis, Germaniastr. 14 in Kassel-West Engels has been repeatedly reduced to his achievements as a propagandist and organizer. However, this corresponded to a division of labor with Marx. Here Engels provided at the same time independent theoretical benefits: Symbiotically with Marx, he participated in the founding part of historical materialism. Without it, the "capital" had never appeared. The 200. Birthday of Friedrich Engels on 28. November 2020 raises, to talk about his theoretical and political importance and investigate issues, has done research on the Engels and published: the crisis of the man-nature relationship and the impending destruction of the natural basis of life by the capitalist system of economy; the emergence and development of private property, State, Patriarchy and social classes, have widely reshaped which the previous history to a history of violence; which end of the 19. Century clearly looming threat of major, devastating wars due imperialist blocs and new weapons systems. One of the last writings of Engels bears disarm the title "Can Europe?"The extent to which workers- ecology- and peace movements, who are now active in these fields, can build on some considerations, this discussion is intended to provide space. Dr. Gert Meyer, Political scientists and historians Marburg