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b"Marx is often accused of what has been called a Promethean vision of human social organisation, namely that human beings, using their superior brains, knowledge and technical prowess, can and should impose their will on the rest of the planet or what is called \\u2018nature\\u2019 \\u2013 for better or worse.\\n\\nOn the 200th anniversary of his birth, Engels too must be saved from the same charge.Actually, Engels was well ahead of Marx (yet again) in connecting the destruction and damage to the environment that industrialisation was causing.\\n\\nEngels\\u2019 major work (written with Marx\\u2019s help), The Dialectics of Nature, written in the years up to 1883, just after Marx\\u2019s death, is often subject to attack as extending Marx\\u2019s materialist conception of history as applied to humans, into nature in a non-Marxist way. And yet, in his book, Engels could not be clearer on the dialectical relation between humans and nature. it's time to revise the revisionists.\\n\\nEngels and Ecology The Urban Political Ecology of Friedrich Engels - Camilla Royle\\n\\nThis paper takes the 200th anniversary of Engels\\u2019s birth in November 1820 to rethink his contribution to what we might today call urban political ecology. Marxist thinkers within critical environmental geography, have long argued for a focus on the natural processes that constitute the urban environment, demonstrating how the urban is shaped by both social and ecological processes. Their approach is rooted in a dialectical rather than a mechanistic materialism. While some have cited Engels as an early advocate of these views, others \\u2013 such as Neil Smith in Uneven Development \\u2013 have been more critical of his views on nature, seeing them as representing a dualist approach alien to Marx\\u2019s understanding. This paper will address these debates by highlighting Engels\\u2019s work on housing conditions, air and water pollution as well as his writings on infectious disease pandemics of the time such as typhus and cholera. It will show how Engels\\u2019s approach to public health and his accusations of \\u201csocial murder\\u201d perpetuated by the ruling class predates the analysis of structural violence developed by critical theorists of global health over a century later. It will suggest that Engels\\u2019s understanding of how capitalist social relations produced an urban environment detrimental to workers aligns with Marx\\u2019s views.\\nPLEASE NOTE: All events for HM Online are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider supporting the Historical Materialism project.\\n\\nPlease consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism journal, published by BRILL, who are currently offering a 25% discount on individual subscriptions, valid until the end of the year. To use the offer, quote the discount code 70997 when subscribing at: www.brill.com/hima\\n\\nAlso, please consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism book series through Haymarket Books. For $25 per month, this subscription gets you every new title from the Historical Materialism series when it is released (as long as your subscription remains active) plus a 50% discount on *all* Haymarket books titles via our website. Non-US subscribers will be charged an extra $20/month for international shipping. \\nhttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/894-haymarket-book-club-historical-materialism-series\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/EbGrV9UzYo4\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks"