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Engels did much more than Marx himself to popularise the ideas of Marxism. Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

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Friedrich Engels was Karl Marx's closest collaborator from their meeting in 1844 until Marx's death in 1883, and the claim that he did more than Marx to popularise Marxism turns on separating theoretical originality from the labour of dissemination.

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  • Financial and Personal Sustenance of Marx's Work
  • The Communist Manifesto as a Vehicle of Popularisation
  • Engels' Own Body of Popularising Work
  • Custodian and Authority After Marx's Death
  • Organisational Popularisation
  • The Limits of the Claim
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