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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... capitalist society, instead of going on to write a philosophical treatise of his own. The few available texts on this theme, like the Theses on Feuerbach, the Preface (already mentioned) to A Contribution to the Critique of Political ...
... capitalism'.18 And yet Lukács was to pursue the problem no further – the problem which (before and independently of the Manuscripts) he had discovered to be crucial to the understanding of Capital itself. What prevented him was the ...
... Capitalism (1937), its significance is far wider. 'In making abstraction of particular elements in a situation,' he writes, 'there are two roads along which one can proceed.' The first is that which 'builds abstraction on the exclusion ...
... capitalist mode of production, Marx states, the elements which are not general and common, must be separated out from the determinations valid for production as such, so that in their unity – which arises already from the identity of ...
... capitalist in relation to living labour. Here we have once more the perversion of the relationship, which we have already, in dealing with money, called fetishism. A little farther on Marx adds; Already in its simple form this relation ...
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 |