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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... corporations (or guilds), recognized primogeniture, and so on.38 Nonetheless, in spite of these strikingly pre-bourgeois or anti-bourgeois features in Hegel's thought, Marx does not take him to be the theorist of the post-1815 ...
... corporate community (for example a trade guild), as in medieval times. In 'civil society' – which for Hegel as for Adam Smith and Ricardo was a 'market society' of producers – individuals are divided from and independent of each other ...
... corporation supplies them with an occupation and an activity directed towards a universal end.' §265. 'These institutions are the components of the constitution (i.e. of rationality developed and realized) in the sphere of particularity ...
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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 |