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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... relationship between formal and dialectical logic, between Marxism and the natural sciences, Marx's relationship to Hegel – these were only a few of the many problems posed and supposedly answered with exclusive reference to statements ...
... relationship between subject and predicate. The 'universal' or concept, which ought to express the predicate of some ... relation between subject and predicate, the final subject is primary being. 24 In the Economic and Philosophical ...
... relations in order to analyse them in isolation from social relations of 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 ...
... relations lies in this forgetting. For example. No production possible without an instrument of production, even if ... relation of nature; that is, if I leave out just the specific quality which alone makes 'instrument of production ...
... relationship of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relationship of heaven to earth. The ... relation to private property in general (both personal and real) and also to the 'Declaration of the Rights of Man ...
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 |