Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,1 min

Would ‘Engelsism’ be a more accurate name for Marxism?

The Forum

Available for over a year

Books and articles by Karl Marx’s intellectual partner Friedrich Engels have long served as popular entry points into the world of Marxist thought and politics. So aren’t we using Engels’s name for the ideology? University of Missouri history professor Jonathan Sperber explains. Image: a representation of the cover of Engel's book Anti-Dühring.

Programme Website
More episodes