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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... citizens' real lives, and the citizens participated directly in the city's decisions ('direct democracy'). There was no separation of public from private. Indeed, the individual was so integrated into the community that the concept of ...
... citizen of an ethereal community. One obtains the citizen only by abstracting from the bourgeois. The difference between the two, says Marx in The Jewish Question, 'is the difference between the tradesman and the citizen, between the ...
... citizen of the state. In Hegel's view this unity and synthesis is achieved by means of the sovereign, the bureaucracy as universal class and the Assembly of the Estates. The hereditary sovereign because he is independent of all ...
... citizens of the state are members of families and of civil society. 'The real idea is mind, which, sundering itself into the two ideal spheres of its concept, family and civil society, enters upon its finite phase' – thus we see that ...
... citizen's trust in it and sentiment towards it. They are the pillars of public freedom since in them particular freedom is realized and rational, and therefore there is implicitly present even in them the union of freedom and necessity ...
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 |