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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... Marx's relationship to Hegel – these were only a few of the many problems posed and supposedly answered with ... Marx-Hegel relationship, for example, or the problem of dialectic. Plekhanov is typical in this respect. Although one of the ...
... Marx' in the 1914 Granat encyclopedic dictionary. The item was written by Lenin, and later on served as a model for Stalin's celebrated treatise On Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism. Both the paragraph on Marx's ...
Karl Marx. the reaction directly to political factors. Nevertheless, the sheer rigidity of official doctrine, the rigor mortis which already gripped Marxism under Stalin, contributed in no small way to the cool reception which the ...
Karl Marx. profound dissimilarity to 'dialectical materialism'. They said nothing at all about the dialectics of nature; nothing which prepared the way for Engels's theory of the three basic dialectical laws of the universe (the ...
... Marx... as central to the revolutionary critique of capitalism'.18 And yet Lukács was to pursue the problem no ... Marx's early works, virtually abandoned by Marxists, were to become a happy huntingground for Existentialist and Catholic ...
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 |