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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... whole first generation of Marxian interpreters and disciples – including Kautsky, Plekhanov, Bernstein and Labriola – had already formed their ideas. So the Marxism of the Second International was constituted in almost total ignorance ...
... whole generation of Marxist theorists knew next to nothing (through no fault of their own) of Marx's early philosophical writings: it is vital to keep this fact firmly in mind, if one wishes to understand one decisively important ...
... whole life on the four volumes of Capital. 'The peculiar significance of Engels for the development and formation of Marxism' lay much more, in Adler's view, in the way in which he 'liberated Marx's sociological work from the special ...
... whole early period corresponding (approximately) to the Second International. They were vital to an era which was in every sense decisive, the era in which Marxism's main corpus of doctrine was first defined and set out. As well as the ...
... whole profundity of those modern economists who demonstrate the eternity and harmoniousness of the existing social relations lies in this forgetting. For example. No production possible without an instrument of production, even if this ...
Contents
xxxii | |
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 |