Analysis Of Carver's "Marx And Engels: The Intellectual Relationship"

Marx and Engels thoughts relationship is a hot problem in the academe, which also is a inevitable topic if you want to study Marxism. Now there are still aboil controversy about their thoughts relationship, the most impressive one is " Opposite Marx and Engels". Here we attempts to analyse the texts, combining history and logic methord, analysing Carver's "Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship", which help us have a better understanding of the fact of "Opposite Marx and Engels", also help us understand Marxism fully and exactly.Carver thought that Engels'thoughts were not regarded enough in the traditional research. Besides this, the original view about Marx and Engels thoughts also have defects. So Carver brought forwarded that study Engels to be the chief reserch object, understood Marx and Engels thoughts relationship afresh.According to text analysis, Carver pointed out that Marx'and Engels'thoughts were idiencally when they were young, Engels thoughts were a little bit more ahead of Marx's. But at 1859 Engels wrote the anonymity remarks about Marxist Political Economics became a milestone of their two thoughts relationship. Carver thought that Engels instruction about Marxism was wrong , and such reading way became the basic form way for people to study Marx works later. Carver especially emphasized Marx's dead date, as Engels comments about their relationship was not consistent at around that date. In fact, The dummy partnership was originated from Engels, and it was Engels gave us"the consistent"feints about their thoughts relationship. What we well-known Marxism is actually Engels'thoughts. We now understand the Marxism is actually Engels' thought, although Engels self-abasement to be Marx's "second violin", he was really "first violin."Based on the investigation and analysis of relative texts, we can find that Carver's research about Marx and Engels has his reasonable sides, also has big defects. Carver reversed the traditional research methord, and put Engels at the first research place, which helps us change the long term tradition of Paying more attention to Marx than Engels and the view that Engels is Marx's ancilla. Which also help us broaden our research horizon about Marxism. About the source of the Marxism item, He also emphasized Engels's effects on Marxism theory. But, we also can't neglect the defects of Carver's views. As he didn't grasp the basic idea of The Communism Manifesto as a whole, Carver made a wrong decision that Communism Manifesto didn't include Marx's thoughts; As he understand dialectics shallowly, Carver made the wrong decision that Engels's dialectics were different with Marx's dialectics; When he analysed the two prologues about "Anti-Dühring", Carver made lots of hypothesizers, lead to that his attacks about Marx and Engels relationship lacks of basiss; Carver thought that Marx didn't agree with Engels'Natural dialects also wan't compliance with the facts; Expecially as his politics and ideology biases, Carver got the wrong view points that: Engels created Marxism, Engels was the"First violinist"of Marxism.