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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... means to an end, the means of guaranteeing private rights. It was, in his view, unable to grasp the fact that the state (the 'public interest', the universal properly so called) was no mere means, but rather the end. However, Hegel's ...
... means above all separation, estrangement. Marx's thesis is that the political state, the 'state as such', is a modern product because the whole phenomenon of the detachment of state from society (of politics from economics, of 'public ...
... means, whose goal is the life of civil society'. Indeed, 'the relationship of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relationship of heaven to earth. The state stands in the same opposition to civil society and ...
... means that politics becomes the administration of things, or simply another branch of social production. And it would no longer be true that 'all individuals as single individuals' would have to participate in all of.
... means of production and subsistence) and from the other men to whom his work-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 ...
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 |