The Essential Writings

by Karl Marx

(Essential Writings of the Great Philosophers)

Genres: Politics, Philosophy

441 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2009

About the author

With 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
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
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Reviews

[Matthias · Rating 3 out of 5]

Robert Kurz präsentiert und kommentiert – je zu Beginn eines neuen Kapitels relativ kurz und für ungeübte Leser:innen im Werk von Marx auch nicht unbedingt leicht verständlich – Texte, die sich auf die Kritik der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft konzentrieren. Der Schwerpunkt der Auswahl liegt auf Marx’ Analyse der kapitalistischen Ökonomie, der historischen Entwicklung von Wert und Arbeit sowie auf der Möglichkeit gesellschaftlicher Transformation.

Zunächst einmal bin ich der Meinung, dass man dem Autor dafür danken muss, dass er sich die Mühe gemacht hat, die verschiedenen Passagen auszuwählen und einzuleiten. Gewünscht hätte ich mir Kommentare bzw. Erklärendes auch zwischen einzelnen Textpassagen, da man, gerade bei längerer Lektüre oder auch mal nach zwei Tagen Pause, gerne mal den Faden verliert. Aber das ist vielleicht auch einfach mein persönliches Problem.

Trotzdem, das lässt sich sicherlich als Fazit festhalten, sind die Textpassagen (so gut sie auch ausgewählt sind), auch aufgrund der theoretischen Dichte alles andere als leicht zugänglich, was man natürlich nicht dem „Kompilator“ anlasten kann. Leser:innen ohne jegliche Vorkenntnisse der Materie ist dieser Titel entsprechend nicht zu empfehlen, obwohl ich der Meinung bin, dass man durch manche Texte auch einfach einmal durchmuss, selbst wenn man nicht alles versteht. Dümmer wird man durch Lektüre selten, und Marx’ Analyse des kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems ist eben nix für zwischendurch.

[Sinan Öner]

German Philosopher, Law Historian, Economist, Politician, Diplomat, Poet, Writer, Historian Karl Marx's "Essential Writings" contain his different books. In "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts", Marx wrote about the history of capitalism, the modern colonial capitalist system's development and expansion, social struggles in modern societies of European countries and the modern philosophical discussions, the modern philosophic movements, the historical materialism and the dialectical materialism, the history of philosophy and the modern philosophic questions. Marx's "Communist Manifesto" which he wrote with Engels tells about "the different socialist and communist movements" in 1848 European Revolutions. Karl Marx write "a scientific report" in his "Wage Labor and Capital" about "the modern economic life" and "the conditions of industrial production and the accumulation of capital" in European countries. Marx's writings about "the Gotha Program" (with Engels) contain his criticism, suggestions and thoughts about SPD's (German Social Democrat Party) Congress in Gotha and "the Gotha Program for SPD".

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marx dismisses capitalism as dehumanizing and offers a utopian economics system that should not be imposed, but instead realized when society comes to decide that equality is a higher value than relative economic success.

[Thibaud Sanchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Something that I learned from this book is about wages, like when wages go up rent increases. Another reason I wanted to study Marxism and anti-capitalism is when i saw a protest sign in Berlin saying capitalism is a crime relating to the climate.

[6r36.v1073t · Rating 5 out of 5]

Capitalism must be crushed—here's why!