ABSTRACT
In the light of the anarchists’ much vaunted hostility to Marxism, Engels’s views of German philosophy might seem an odd starting point for a discussion of anarchism’s potential future(s). Yet if for “rational” we substitute “radical,” the contrast between the two positions is illuminating. All that is real is radical, all that is radical is real. The first, which we dub the presentist view, is one that has increasingly come to dominate anarchist thought. The second, which points to the necessity of properly understanding the past, is one that we seek to resurrect, albeit on different philosophical grounds than those that Engels proposed.
