Engels was a cock. Have you ever managed to read "The Dialectics of Nature" without pissing yourself with laughter. It's funnier than the appendix to the New Park edition of Trotsky's "In Defence of Merckxism"
I must disagree about your analysis of Engels......Have you read the 'the Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844'.....as inciteful book as you could read.......though i agree the marxist lexicography is convoluted and difficult to follow....as in Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution.....that's why British marxists are most readable and accessible such as Eric Hobsbawn or Christopher Hill......both demi-gods.
I must disagree about your analysis of Engels......Have you read the 'the Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844'.....as inciteful book as you could read.......though i agree the marxist lexicography is convoluted and difficult to follow....as in Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution.....that's why British marxists are most readable and accessible such as Eric Hobsbawn or Christopher Hill......both demi-gods.