Eugen Dühring in the Works of Marx and Engels

Eugen Dühring was a philosopher and critical thinker whose ideas clashed with Marx and Engels. Marx and Engels critiqued Dühring's philosophy because they believed it was flawed, dogmatic, and overly focused on idealism rather than material reality. They saw his views as a challenge to scientific socialism, prompting them to explicitly defend their own approach, which emphasized economics and social class as driving forces in history. Their writings on Dühring aimed to clarify and defend their theories against his criticisms, reinforcing their commitment to a materialist and scientific understanding of societal change.