In the medi val stage of evolution of the production of commodities, the question as to the owner of the product of labour could not arise.
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In 1880, Engels excerpted three vital chapters from Anti-Duehring, which became this pamphlet, the most popular distillation of Marx and Engel\'s philosophies after the Manifesto itself.
German philosopher FRIEDRICH Engels (1820-1895), who had coauthored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848, was not pleased, and set out to refute Duehring in a highly charged work 1878 book called Anti-Duehring.
Eugene Duehring, a professor at Berlin University, proclaimed himself converted to Socialism, and even went so far as to promulgate his own theories on the philosophy. --from Chapter III In 1875, Dr.
His property was, therefore, based upon his own labour.
It belonged wholly to him, as a matter of course.
There was no need for him to appropriate the new product.
The individual producer, as a rule, had, from raw material belonging to himself, and generally his own handiwork, produced it with his own tools, by the labour of his own hands or of his family.
In the medi val stage of evolution of the production of commodities, the question as to the owner of the product of labour could not arise
