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Sur les machines
Au tournant des années 1850, les machines prennent place dans les usines. L'ouvrier désormais soulagé du labeur musculaire se trouve déconnecté de son ouvrage. S'il n'est pas remplacé par la machine, il se voit soudainement soumis à ses cadences. Le travail vivant et manuel cède peu à peu le pas aux activités intellectuelles.
À la même époque, Karl Marx, en pleine élaboration de son futur grand oeuvre, "Le Capital", rédigera ces pages désormais célèbres sur les machines et leur impact. Entre libération et asservissement, elles bouleversent profondément le rapport au travail. Une réflexion visionnaire sur ce que les nouvelles technologies font au travail et aux travailleurs.
À la même époque, Karl Marx, en pleine élaboration de son futur grand oeuvre, "Le Capital", rédigera ces pages désormais célèbres sur les machines et leur impact. Entre libération et asservissement, elles bouleversent profondément le rapport au travail. Une réflexion visionnaire sur ce que les nouvelles technologies font au travail et aux travailleurs.
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Published September 17, 2025
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Karl Marx
3,615 books7,262 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 Bakunin 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).
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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 Bakunin 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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January 31, 2026
An interesting excerpt into Marx's thoughts and logic, an extract from the Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy on machines, that took a life of its own in the second half of the XXth century as historians, philosophers and political scientists rediscovered it and tried to apply its logic to the ongoing political situation.
The foreword and afterword of this edition however do a good job of recontextualising the book into its time, when the development of machines and productivism was not yet hitting the global limits of environmental impact and climate change, and of the global limits of supply economics. They also contextualise the book in its place in Marx's work, as a thought-developing prelude to Das Kapital, not a definite, pushishable work.
The text itself still touches on interesting and important points, inasmuch as we consider that the time saved by the use of machines to boost production and the production process could and should be used for more human uses: leisure and the development of thought and consciousness.
The foreword and afterword of this edition however do a good job of recontextualising the book into its time, when the development of machines and productivism was not yet hitting the global limits of environmental impact and climate change, and of the global limits of supply economics. They also contextualise the book in its place in Marx's work, as a thought-developing prelude to Das Kapital, not a definite, pushishable work.
The text itself still touches on interesting and important points, inasmuch as we consider that the time saved by the use of machines to boost production and the production process could and should be used for more human uses: leisure and the development of thought and consciousness.
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