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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... activity during the second half of the seventies learned what was scientific socialism, what were its philosophical principles, what was its method' mainly from the writings of Engels. 'For the dissemination of Marxism as a special ...
Karl Marx. as single individuals' would have to participate in all of this activity; rather, some individuals would, as expressions of and on behalf of the social totality, just as happens with other productive activities (for example ...
... activity belongs. This means that Marx does not conceive of his subjectivity as a fixed essence or an 'internal, dumb generality', but as a function of his relationship with nature and with other men – a function of inter-human or ...
... activity as passivity [Leiden], power as impotence, procreation as emasculation, the worker's own physical and mental energy, his personal life – for what is life but activity? – as an activity directed against himself, which is ...
... activity directed towards a universal end.' §265. 'These institutions are the components of the constitution (i.e. of rationality developed and realized) in the sphere of particularity. They are, therefore, the firm foundation not only ...
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 |