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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... human beings appears as a characteristic or property of things; on the other hand, things appear to be endowed with social or human attributes. This is in embryo the argument which Marx.
Karl Marx. human attributes. This is in embryo the argument which Marx will develop later in Capital as 'the fetishism ... human labour', and 'use value' is transformed into the abstraction of 'exchange value'. This is not a generalizing ...
... human labour. It is the other way round. Its essence is being human labour, and being tailors' work is a hypostasis or determinate form of realization of that essence. This quid pro quo is inevitable, because the labour represented in ...
... human essence... can be comprehended only as “genus”, as an internal, dumb generality which naturally unites the many individuals.'71 Possibly the most original single aspect of the Manuscripts is Marx's attempt to define what this human ...
... human nature' in a radically different fashion: not as a 'nature' or 'essence' of the sort found in natural-right philosophy but as a series of relationships. If the worker alienates or separates his subjectivity from himself in the ...
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 |