Alienation: Marx's Concept of Man in Capitalist Society

TLDR: Ollman as mentioned in this paper argues that the real problems derive from Engels' questionable application of dialectics to nature or from his faulty definition of historical materialism, as shown by Korsch and Althusser.

Abstract: As a scientific and radical Marxist, Ollman challenges every pseudo-Marxist or anti-Marxist determinism. He easily rejects the technological interpretations of Marxian economics as elaborated by, e.g., Plamenatz, Acton, Carew-Hunt, etc., or by those economists who, like Joan Robinson and Joseph Schumpeter, do not understand the importance of the dialectical categories in Marxism. Ollman also criticizes the vulgar “orthodox”, one-sided interpretations of historical and dialectical materialism. Nevertheless Ollman perhaps underestimates some differences between the old Engels and Marx: the actual question is not whether Marx approved wholly of Engels' Anti-Duehring. The real problems derive from Engels' questionable application of dialectics to nature or from his faulty definition of historical materialism (as shown by Korsch and Althusser).