What exactly did Duhring believe in?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Eugen Duhring was a blind German professor who briefly was a rival to Marx and Engels in this the German SPD. Engels rebutted him in his "Anti-Duhring" and this seems to have demolished his reputation. Very little of his work has been translated into English.

Did he have a developed theory of socialism? According to what I could pick up from wikipedia his economic ideas were based on Fredrich List, who in turn was influenced by Alexander Hamilton.and who believed capital and labor ultimately have common interests. This isn't socialism.Duhring also appears to have been anti-Semitic.

Was there anything worthwhile in his thought? Why was he popular for a time among socialists? Did he develop a theory/model of socialism and did he merely throw out ideas?

[Die Neue Zeit]

He was a market socialist of some sorts who believed in economic decentralization, to the point where decentralized communes would trade with each other.

[Kronsteen]

Duhring doesn't even get an entry in the MIA - surely a gap to be plugged? I've just spent half an hour reading quotes from him in the Anti-Duhring and...I've got no clear picture of his system. It looks very much like Kant's ideas and way of writing - even quoting Kant on occasion - if that helps.

Duhring was one of those thinkers who tried to interpret all reality in terms of a few highly elastic terms - from the formation of planets to economics. But Engels doesn't spell out what these terms are - so maybe Duhring wasn't clear on what they were either.

Engels had no patience with totalising systems. Except his own, of course.

EDIT: I didn't think of looking for Duhring on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BChring) at first, but from what it says, his ideas were a mess. Like Hegel in thinking ultimate reality is knowable by reason, like Schopenhaur in identifying the fundamental stuff of the universe as constituting matter and mind, and like Von Mises in thinking capitalists and workers have common interests.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I have spoken to market-socialist Alberto Chilosi online a couple of times, and he wrote this paper (which in turn I referenced in my own work, but before the online dialogue ;) ):

Duhring's Socialitarian Model of Economic Communes and its Influence on the Development of Socialist Thought and Practice (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=55155)