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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... spheres between the privileged and their serfs. Hegel also wanted to retain the medieval corporations (or guilds), recognized primogeniture, and so on.38 Nonetheless, in spite of these strikingly pre-bourgeois or anti-bourgeois features ...
... spheres. The main purpose of Hegel's work is to explain how, on this basis, the state can overcome the manifold contradictions of 'civil society'. The task of a modern state, in this sense, must be to restore the ethic and the organic ...
... equally impeded by the privileges of other Estates'.48 It was impossible therefore that there should have been a separate sphere of 'public' rights at that time. The modern situation is utterly different. In modern 'civil society'
... sphere of the 'general interest' vanishes along with the division between governors and governed. This means that politics becomes the administration of things, or simply another branch of social production. And it would no longer be ...
... spheres only in appearance. In reality the basic division into the permanent war of individual interests on the one hand and the abstract, spurious unity of the state on the other still persists. Marx considers the bureaucracy is far ...
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 |