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The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto (Great Books in Philosophy) 1st (first) Edition by Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels published by Prometheus Books
(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new political vocabulary peppered with "socialism", "capitalism", "the working class", "the bourgeoisie", "labour theory of value", "alienation", "economic determinism", "dialectical materialism", and "historical materialism". Marx's economic analysis of history has been a powerful legacy, the effects of which continue to be felt world-wide.Serving as the foundation for Marx's indictment of capitalism is his extraordinary work titled "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts", written in 1844 but published nearly a century later. Here Marx offers his theory of human nature and an analysis of emerging capitalism's degenerative impact on man's sense of self and his creative potential. What is man's true nature? How did capitalism gain such a foothold on Western society? What is alienation and how does it threaten to undermine the proletariat? These and other vital questions are addressed as the youthful Marx sets forth his first detailed assessment of the human condition.
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Karl Marx
3,235 books6,491 followersWith the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) and
Das Kapital
(1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
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German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).
The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.
Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.
Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.
Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
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March 8, 2025
This was the first body of work(s) by Marx/Engels that I’ve read aside from a few chapters of The German Ideology. I’ve been familiar with some of the modern positions that arose from these ideas, but I’m glad to have introduced myself to the way these ideas had been shaping up just before the final stage of their development. I am ill-equipped to provide any groundbreaking or new commentary on their theories, so I’ll highlight some of the quotes directly from them that stuck with me:
“The ordinary wage…is the lowest compatible with common humanity (that is a cattle-like existence” (20).
“The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but the object…Therefore the greater this product, the less is he himself” (72).
“My own existence is social activity, and therefore that which I make of myself, I make of myself for society and with the consciousness of myself as a social being” (105).
The timelessness of the work caused me to put the book down and ruminate on its contemporary implications several times. This was generally to be expected, but the level of detail and sophistication of these ideas is astonishing when considering how readily they can be applied to modern issues. While the success of their refutations is arguable, I was rather shocked to see that most all of the major criticisms of their ideology had been directly considered in “The Communist Manifesto.”
I was also pleasantly surprised by the presence of humanist philosophy and how much Marx’s understanding of the human condition as a whole played into the development of his ideology. It’s certainly fascinating to have a better understanding of the philosophical approach he entered with, rather than simply the economic conditions which his supporters present, especially as I begin to understand how important this philosophic worldview stood as the basis for developing his economic ideology.
“The ordinary wage…is the lowest compatible with common humanity (that is a cattle-like existence” (20).
“The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but the object…Therefore the greater this product, the less is he himself” (72).
“My own existence is social activity, and therefore that which I make of myself, I make of myself for society and with the consciousness of myself as a social being” (105).
The timelessness of the work caused me to put the book down and ruminate on its contemporary implications several times. This was generally to be expected, but the level of detail and sophistication of these ideas is astonishing when considering how readily they can be applied to modern issues. While the success of their refutations is arguable, I was rather shocked to see that most all of the major criticisms of their ideology had been directly considered in “The Communist Manifesto.”
I was also pleasantly surprised by the presence of humanist philosophy and how much Marx’s understanding of the human condition as a whole played into the development of his ideology. It’s certainly fascinating to have a better understanding of the philosophical approach he entered with, rather than simply the economic conditions which his supporters present, especially as I begin to understand how important this philosophic worldview stood as the basis for developing his economic ideology.
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