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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... wage-labour with labour in general, and so reduce the particular, 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 ...
... wage-labour, the work which yields commodities and capital – the labourer objectifies and alienates his own 'essence'. 'The object that labour produces, its product, confronts it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer ...
... wage-labour is not simply a material thing but the objectification of the worker's subjectivity, of his labour-power. This means, as Marx explains in Theories of Surplus Value, that 'When we speak of the commodity as a materialization ...
... wage-labour does not produce only commodities, but also produces and reproduces itself as a commodity. It produces and reproduces not only objects but also the social relationships of capitalism itself. This is hinted at in the ...
... Wage-Labour and Capital (1847–9): In production, men not only act on nature, but also on one another. They produce only by cooperating in a certain way and mutually exchanging their activities. In order to produce, they enter into ...
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 |