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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... private property, with reference to one particular form of property: landed property regulated by the law of primogeniture (which Hegel sees as essential to the state). The Jewish Question, on the other hand, considers the argument in ...
... private property, or the right of individuals to pursue their own exclusive interests independently of, and sometimes against, society itself. Paradox reigns, therefore: the general will is invoked in order to confer absolute value on ...
... Private Property and Communism' Marx describes how 'man's relation to nature is directly his relation to man, and his relation to man is directly his relation to nature', and this should be placed alongside his subsequent remarks on ...
... private property. Both Hegel and Marx aimed at resolving the split between civil and political life, that is between man fighting for his individual interests and man as a citizen of the state. In Hegel's view this unity and synthesis ...
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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 |