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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... state and conceives of man as the subjectivized state; democracy proceeds from man and conceives of the state as objectified man. Just as religion does not make man, but rather man makes religion, so the constitution does not make the ...
... state. In the context of the separation between state and society, the progressive tendency of society – the 'efforts of civil society to transform itself' – becomes necessarily a wish to 'force its way into the legislature en masse, or ...
... state. The Critique, after all, contains a clear statement of the dependence of the state upon society, a critical analysis of parliamentarism accompanied by a countertheory of popular delegation, and a perspective showing the need for ...
... state's disappearance can all be traced back. This implies in turn that the true originality of Marxism must be sought rather in the field of social and economic analysis than in political theory. Even in the theory of the state, for ...
... state and existing social institutions as 'rational' leads him into internal inconsistencies in his argument. Marx also develops his own historical account of the 'act of birth' of the state and its relationship to private property ...
Contents
xxxii | |
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 |