Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: "Anti-Duehring"

The author aims to dismantle a rival philosopher's attempt to construct an all-embracing system and to replace aprioristic foundations with a materialist and dialectical method. He systematically rejects absolute or eternal truths and applies dialectical analysis to natural philosophy, morality, and logic, treating concepts such as quantity, negation, and development. In political economy he examines method, critiques force-based explanations, and develops analyses of value, labor, capital, surplus value, and ground rent. Finally he outlines practical socialist prescriptions for production and distribution and discusses the transformations of the state, the family, and education under a socialist order.