Early WritingsWritten in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his controversial essay On the Jewish Question and the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, where Marx first made clear his views on alienation, the state, democracy and human nature. Brilliantly insightful, Marx's Early Writings reveal a mind on the brink of one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history - the theory of Communism. |
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... Hence he was in the best possible position to understand the true import of Marx's criticism of Hegel in the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, and to see why (Feuerbach's influence on it notwithstanding) this study was far more ...
... Hence where Cornu imagines that Marx is demanding bourgeois reforms like universal suffrage, he is in fact formulating a critical analysis of parliamentarism and of the modern representative principle itself. He comments on Hegel's ...
... hence the whole organic, objective process which produces their separation from one another. Because of this they do not perceive the intimate connection between such separation and the particular structures of modern society. The most ...
... hence to the objectivity created by itself – as alien property: alienation [Entäusserung] of labour.66 In the closing pages of the First Part of Theories of Surplus Value we find the following similar argument: Since living labour ...
... Hence Marx can affirm in the last of the Manuscripts that man's 'act of birth' is history, because man's 'being' is how he makes himself, how he 'becomes' historically. This statement alone, incidentally, indicates Marx's distance from ...
Contents
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Letters from | cxcvii |
On the Jewish Question 1843 | ccxi |
A Contribution to the Critique | ccxlvii |
Excerpts from James Mills | cclxv |
Economic and Philosophical | cclxxxix |
Critical Notes on the Article | cxxi |
Appendix | iii |
Chronology of Marxs Life | xviii |
Note on Previous Editions of | xxiii |