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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... production, and recommended armed revolution on the part of the proletariat. In Paris in 1844 Marx met Friedrich Engels, with whom he formed a life-long partnership. Together they prepared the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) as ...
... production,' says Marx. While Proudhon, on the other hand, 'holding things upside down like a true philosopher, sees in actual relations nothing but the incarnation of these principles'. In this manner, he goes on, 'What Hegel has done ...
... production. But what actually occurs is that once this abstraction has been made it is given an independent existence as though it represented the essence of reality, instead of one contingent facet of reality. Concepts become ...
... production' in the first paragraph of the 1857 introduction to the Grundrisse are interesting in this connection. In any scientific analysis of the capitalist mode of production, Marx states, the elements which are not general and ...
... production' amongst others, with the result that (since production is clearly unthinkable without instruments and tools of labour) production becomes unthinkable without the presence of capital. There is no space to pursue this theme ...
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 |