#+title: Engels's Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature | Monthly Review
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* Notes
The author disagrees with the assertion that [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]] is responsible for reducing
[[file:../marxism.org][Marxism]] to a positivist epistemology and reductionist ontology.

The author asserts that due to the contents of [[file:20210502162113-dialectics_of_nature.org][Dialectics of Nature]] make [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]]
the first [[file:../20200720093911-ecology.org][ecological]] thinker.

In the [[file:../20200611204207-soviet_union.org][Soviet Union]], [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]] was used as a means of maintaining Soviet orthodoxy.
Quantum mechanics research was very likely stifled in the USRR for this reason.