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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... essence'. 'The object that labour produces, its product, confronts it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer,' because the product of estranged or wage-labour is not a mere natural object modified and adapted to his ...
... essence' or 'nature'. They have left behind in substance, if not yet in form, the characteristic Feuerbachian position referred to in the sixth of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach: 'The human essence... can be comprehended only as “genus”, as ...
... essence' of the sort found in natural-right philosophy but as a series of relationships. If the worker alienates or separates his subjectivity from himself in the course of work, this happens because he is simultaneously separated and ...
... essence is certainly estranged from man: man's subjectivity, his physical and intellectual energies, his work-capacity, are removed from him. But – this is the decisive insight of the Manuscripts – the 'essence' in question is clearly ...
... essence of the thing. The very fact that 'the civil laws depend on the specific character of the state' and that they are modified in accordance with it is therefore subsumed under the relationship of 'external necessity' just because ...
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 |