Chapter 39 Memorial to Engels

Issue 11 of 2005 "Overseas Theoretical Trends" continued to publish a series of articles to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Engels' death. The famous Russian scholar Georgy's article "Engels' Contribution to Marx's Theory" emphasized an important thought of Engels: it is precisely at the contact points of various sciences that "the greatest results can be expected to be achieved."The reason why those so-called scholars who work behind closed doors today have no real results is related to their abandonment of the Marxist methodology from a personal perspective.Engels also created an important concept in his letter to college students in 1893: the intellectual proletariat.The proletariat must send out its excellent children to master advanced scientific knowledge, so as to bring benefits to the greatest number of people.Today, many intellectuals and so-called "white-collar workers" forget that they still belong to the exploited and squeezed "proletariat" after a few days of full food. It has been written very clearly.Engels pointed out that Marxism "is not a doctrine, but a method", and he criticized himself for overemphasizing economic factors.Both he and Marx saw the socialist movement as a long process of struggle, the highest goal of which "is to create the conditions for the full and free development of each individual and of society as a whole." The leaders of the Soviet Union had a rigid understanding of Marxism and declared Already in heaven, ended up in crash hell.Chinese people have taken many detours in learning Marxism.

The article "Globalized Financial Monopoly Capitalism" by French Delaunay mentioned that 5% of France's economic activities are controlled by the United States.For capitalists, the concept of "country" does not exist. Wherever they can be exploited, capital flows; wherever the conditions for "investment attraction" are good, they go there. Since the 1990s, the degree of exploitation of workers around the world has intensified and the working conditions have deteriorated. In Hungary, Siemens threatened layoffs and relocation, forcing employees to accept weekly working hours extended from 35 hours to 40 hours.A large number of poor people are in a state of being "super-exploited".The author believes that a world ruled by the United States is "dangerous" and places hope in China's development.But I think the author doesn't know enough about the situation in China. The Chinese proletariat has been deprived and washed of its "class consciousness". Tens of millions of laid-off workers are busy competing with hundreds of millions of migrant workers for food. Supergirl Stars are singing songs that they don't understand, encouraging teenagers all over the country to become happy two hundred and five.The author's hope is too naive in the French style.

"Engels' Military Thought and the American Anti-Iraq War Movement" by Albert Sarges of the United States is very good.The erudite Engels is a recognized war and military theorist in the academic circles. He has studied everything from strategy and tactics to weapons and equipment. His writings in this area account for a considerable proportion of his works. "Engels once considered being a full-time military writer".Starting from Engels' military and revolutionary thoughts, the author analyzes the situation of the anti-Vietnam War and the Anti-Iraq War, and proposes that "the situation of contemporary capitalism should be systematically and carefully examined, and it should be strategically applied to the organization of the army. "However, I think that for American intellectuals, it is more effective to study military affairs from Engels than from Mao Zedong; while for Chinese intellectuals, they should read more of the original works of Marx and Engels.

In addition, the Japanese scholar Hayasaka Keizo pointed out that the concept of "circulating capital" was invented by Engels.The second volume of Marx's "Das Kapital" used the term (capital of circulation or circulation capital) several times.The meticulousness of Japanese scholars is admirable. When commemorating such great men as Marx and Engels, I think that they are firstly great men of learning, and then great men of revolution.