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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... production – it is not simply the theories of Hegel and the economists which are upside down, but reality itself. In ... production'. Marx makes it clear that the 'veil' is not added by bourgeois interpreters of 'the social life-process ...
... means that politics becomes the administration of things, or simply another branch of social production. And it would no longer be true that 'all individuals as single individuals' would have to participate in all of.
... Production based on exchange value, on whose surface this free and equal exchange of equivalents proceeds... is at its base the exchange of objectified labour as exchange value for living labour as use value, or, to express this in ...
... production first develops on a large scale – tearing them away from the individual independent labourer – both the objective and subjective conditions of the labour-process, but it develops them as powers dominating the individual ...
... production and subsistence) and from the other men to whom his work-activity belongs. This means that Marx does not conceive of his subjectivity as a fixed essence or an 'internal, dumb generality', but as a function of his relationship ...
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 |