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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... relationship between civil and political society we saw how society must 'abstract from itself', must set itself apart from its real divisions in order to attain the plane of common interest or equality. To get man as ... relation with each.
... relationship of commodities: Within the value relation and the expression of value contained in it the abstract universal is not a property of the concrete, the sensuous-actual; on the contrary, the sensuous-actual is a mere hypostasis ...
... relation between men... assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things', he goes on to say: 'To find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion,' since it is in these regions, precisely ...
... relation to living labour. Here we have once more the perversion of the relationship, which we have already, in dealing with money, called fetishism. A little farther on Marx adds; Already in its simple form this relation is an inversion.
Karl Marx. Already in its simple form this relation is an inversion – personification of the thing and materialization [Versachlichung] of the person; for what distinguishes this form from all previous forms is that the capitalist does ...
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 |