著者

保住 敏彦

出版者

経済学史学会

雑誌

経済学史学会年報 (ISSN:04534786)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.33, pp.39-51, 1995

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In this paper, I examine the thoretical works of Friedrich Engels in his youth and later years in order to elucidate the significance and limitation of that work. I have investigated the following: <i>Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy</i>, and <i>The Condition of the Working Class in England</i>, which are early works, and <i>Anti-D&uuml;hring</i>, a later work. My research indicates that the young Engels moved from Left-Hegelianism to Communism in 1842, earlier than young Marx, and played an important role in formulating the Materialist Conception of History. The paper traces the development of Marx's ideas as contained in the theory of alienated labour in <i>Economic and Philosophical Manuscript</i> (1844) and compares them to those of the Materialist Conception of History in <i>The German Ideology</i> (1846) by Engels and Marx. Finally it examines Engels' book Anti-D&uuml;hring (1885) in order to discover the characteristics of his interpretation of Marxian Theories, and finds his interpretation of history evolutionistic and optimistic.