ABSTRACT
The modem stress on the unity of theory with practical politics produces new and manifold uncertainties in interpreting Karl Marx's intention. These uncertainties are also due in part to ignoring or failing adequately to confront certain crucial passages in Marx's texts, which appear to challenge their new, one-sided, anti-deterministic interpretation of Marxian praxis. The new critical theory abstracts nature from Marx and attempts to free the canonical texts from the deterministic "laws of motion" characteristic of classical Marxism. Shlomo Avineri argues that "Marx's views cannot be squared with Frederick Engels's theories as described in Anti-Duhring or The Dialectics of Nature". An absolutely perfect understanding of Marx's view on the dialectics of nature may be impossible. The writers could have provided the reader with a less distorted and more balanced view of Marx on the question of the dialectics of nature as well as on his general separation from Engels.
