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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... nature; nothing which prepared the way for Engels's theory of the three basic dialectical laws of the universe (the transformation of quantity into quality and vice-versa, the negation of negation, the coincidence of opposites); nothing ...
... nature – their essential difference is not forgotten. The whole profundity of those modern economists who demonstrate the eternity and harmoniousness of the existing social relations lies in this forgetting. For example. No production ...
... Nature, the everlasting Nature-imposed condition of human existence' – that the light of eternity comes to be cast upon the particular historical figure of the wage-labourer.37 Or else economists reduce capital to a mere 'instrument of ...
... nature, while the latter were also political in nature. In modern society economic inequality accompanies political and juridical equality, while under feudalism the landlord was also a political sovereign, and the tiller of the soil ...
... 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 course of ...
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 |