Engels

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani almost always links Engels with Marx, especially for a formula he quotes very often: moving from "the empire of necessity" to "the kingdom of freedom". He specifies that empire and kingdom do not mean the same thing1. He refuses to set Engels against Marx as a hard-working executor. He sees him as a great teacher who brings into synchrony what remains, in Marx, a diachrony in motion, even if this sometimes leads to more rigid formulations for teaching purposes23. He defends Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, where the word "scientific" has meaning in relation to the utopias4. Later, he judges him more naturalist than Marx5. On the dialectics of nature, he agrees with him that dialectics should not be limited to the human sphere, but prefers to speak of a dialectics of matter6. He also keeps from Engels the notion of a qualitative threshold, his letters on Balzac, his admiration for Hegel's Aesthetics and the texts against Malthus written with Marx.

1. 19 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021 · 1:45:14
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4. 4#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 26:51
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6. 6L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 42:37

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