Engels' Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (1843) was the starting point for the major work of Marx for the next four decades, and yet in all of his later writings purporting to represent Marx's views, Engels never gets to grips with those aspects which Marx himself regarded as essential. Since Engels' writings have had such an influence on late readings of Capital, acknowledging this can help us to see what Marx was trying to do.
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