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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... external phenomenal form of the Idea', into an attribute or predicate of this entified predicate. In 1843, 1844, and 1873, therefore, Marx's argument remains substantially the same. It is necessary, next, to say something about ...
... satisfy its needs, accidental caprices, and subjective desires, destroys itself... in this process of gratification. At the same time... [it] is in thoroughgoing dependence on caprice and external accident, and is held in check by.
Karl Marx. caprice and external accident, and is held in check by the power of universality. In these contrasts and their complexity, civil society affords a spectacle of extravagance and want as well as of the physical and ethical ...
... external body dominating it. Engels and Lenin, however, tend noticeably to attribute such characteristics to the state in general. They fail to grasp fully the complex mechanism whereby the state is really abstracted from society – and ...
... external world, to natural objects, as an alien world confronting him in hostile opposition. (2) The relationship of labour to the act of production within labour. This relationship is the relationship of the worker to his own activity ...
Contents
xxxii | |
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 |