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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
Red Menace
Dialectics vs. Metaphysics: Understanding the World
Engels contrasts the traditional metaphysical theory with dialectics, criticizing the former for abstracting from processes and understanding things in isolation. Metaphysical thinking, according to Engels, leads to rigid and reductive thinking as it fails to consider the relationships between things. He argues that this view is not an accurate reflection of nature, highlighting the importance of understanding things in their relationships rather than in isolation.
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