#cuz i like how it reads better comparing it with the english translation on marxists.org against the original german

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"Naturalists imagine that they are emancipating themselves from philosophy when they ignore or abuse it. But as they cannot stir a step without thought, while for thought logical definitions are necessary; and these definitions they incautiously borrow either from the current theoretical property of so-called educated people, who are dominated by the remnants of long-passed-away philosophic systems, or else from their uncritical and unsystematic reading of all kinds of philosophical works: in the long run they prove after all to be prisoners to philosophy, but, unfortunately, for the most part philosophy of the very worst quality. And so people who are particularly vehement in abusing philosophy become the slaves of the worst vulgarized relies of the worst philosophical systems"

Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature, 1872-1882

#using the english translation in the translation of the b zavadovsky piece #cuz i like how it reads better comparing it with the english translation on marxists.org against the original german #friedrich engels #engels #reading