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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... specific social relationships) they become commodities or capital. 'I can still remember even today the overwhelming effect produced in me by Marx's statement,' he writes.17 Now it is true that the mistake in question had invalidated ...
... specific contribution which Feuerbach can be held to have made is a reapplication of one aspect of this tradition in the new context, the way in which he brought it to bear on Hegelianism. I believe the vital element in this vexed ...
... specific ones of the first) is, Dobb says, that – 'in all such abstract systems there exists the serious danger of hypostatizing one's concepts', that is of 'regarding the postulated relations as the determining ones in any actual situation ...
... specific institutions and processes of modern economy generic or universal categories supposed to be valid for all times and places; then the former come to be seen as realizations, incarnations of the latter. His reflections on the ...
... specific form of modern productive work to 'labour' pure and simple, as that term is defined in any dictionary. The result is – given that 'labour' in general is, in Marx's words, 'the universal condition for the metabolic interaction ...
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 |