- Title
- Engels's contradictions: a reply to Tristram Hunt
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- International Socialism: A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Theory , Issue 133, p. 195-204
- Relation
- http://isj.org.uk/engelss-contradictions-a-reply-to-tristram-hunt
- Publisher
- Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- In a recent and reasonably popular biography, Tristram Hunt charges Friedrich Engels with a series of class and gender contradictions: he condemned prostitution but enjoyed it himself; he looked askance at marriage and yet married Lizzy Burns on her deathbed; he was fully in favour of education for women and universal suffrage but could not tolerate the likes of Annie Besant or the women’s rights campaigner Gertrud Guillaume-Schack; he lived a double life as cotton lord and revolutionary communist, a mill-owning Marxist who was objectively a bourgeois.
- Subject
- Tristram Hunt; Friedrich Engels; class; gender; contradictions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1308639
- Identifier
- uon:21689
- Identifier
- ISSN:0020-8736
- Language
- eng
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