# Engels's Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature | Monthly Review source : [Monthly Review | Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics…](https://monthlyreview.org/2021/04/01/engelss-ecologically-indispensable-if-incomplete-dialectics-of-nature/) ## Notes The author disagrees with the assertion that [[Engels]] is responsible for reducing [[Marxism]] to a positivist epistemology and reductionist ontology. The author asserts that due to the contents of [[Dialectics of Nature]] make [[Engels]] the first [[ecological]] thinker. In the [[Soviet Union]], [[Engels]] was used as a means of maintaining Soviet orthodoxy. Quantum mechanics research was very likely stifled in the USRR for this reason.