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Ireland and the Irish Question
Presents letters and articles which most represent the views held by Marx and Engels on Irish emancipation
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518 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1971
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Karl Marx
3,253 books6,555 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).
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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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October 29, 2014
This book is included among my continuing search to gain cultural and historical connection to my ancestral home and people. While it has a lot of useful information, it also seems to have a significant amount of information I consider useless and a waste of paper.
There's an annoying amount of details irrelevent to me. Most of the letters can be skipped, especially those after page 200. I don't care to know about some bill passed in parliament, or who voted for whom. I don't care. This information is not timeless and not vital in the way historical materialism is.
Apparently there was a significant division in the first international ('the international workingmen's association'), in which Marx's side focused on parliamentary activity, while Bakunin's side preferred direct economical struggle against capitalism (which I gather to mean worker's revolt, or something like it).
As I read more of marx and engels's beliefs about how to reach socialism (specifically, in ireland), I realize I disagree with much of what they envision to be the steps toward socialism. Socialist political parties can (and have been) banned, reforms can and are removed, but the working-class will continue to struggle regardless of any political progression.
But, the first half or so was quite good. There was quite a lot more educating of irish history and the conditions of the irish working class in ireland and england, than other irish history books I've read. But there are some details about ireland's geology and climate which I mostly skipped because of its political unimportance to me. So much of this book feels like a lot of hot air - just as I have imagined the ~50-volume 'collected works of marx' likely is.
Historically useful to me is the timeline engels made of ireland's history, which gives a basic understanding of ireland's struggle to exist against near-constant invasion and wars by the english, normans, scottish, danish, german, scandinavians, and so on. This was the historical setting from which the english were able to induce an occupying ruling class, manufactoring famines and enforcing mass exodus (particularly to strain the english working-class), and capturing a significant slave population for the atlantic slave trade. All this has me thinking of similarly-devastated islands and peoples attacked by capitalism and imperialism. For example, similar devastation, associations with slavery, frequent uprisings, manufactured dependence (upon empire), and centuries-long struggle to survive (which is ongoing today), is very similar to that of the history and present situation in Haiti.
Reading on, there was a reasonable amount I didn't understand, such as the excess of numbers, stats, and mathematical analysis of capitalism. I also had some trouble finding a good context for the many historical events, figures, and other such information talked about here. But it wasn't so bad I couldn't still process the basics among subjects I more closely understand (such as the repression of the working-class, through abuse of lease by landowners), and so I still learned a good amount.
This concluding fact is a bit sad considering the previous history book I read about ireland (written by an irish man) was less respectful and knowledgeable of ireland and its people, than was a series of interconnected writings by a couple of german communists.
There's an annoying amount of details irrelevent to me. Most of the letters can be skipped, especially those after page 200. I don't care to know about some bill passed in parliament, or who voted for whom. I don't care. This information is not timeless and not vital in the way historical materialism is.
Apparently there was a significant division in the first international ('the international workingmen's association'), in which Marx's side focused on parliamentary activity, while Bakunin's side preferred direct economical struggle against capitalism (which I gather to mean worker's revolt, or something like it).
As I read more of marx and engels's beliefs about how to reach socialism (specifically, in ireland), I realize I disagree with much of what they envision to be the steps toward socialism. Socialist political parties can (and have been) banned, reforms can and are removed, but the working-class will continue to struggle regardless of any political progression.
But, the first half or so was quite good. There was quite a lot more educating of irish history and the conditions of the irish working class in ireland and england, than other irish history books I've read. But there are some details about ireland's geology and climate which I mostly skipped because of its political unimportance to me. So much of this book feels like a lot of hot air - just as I have imagined the ~50-volume 'collected works of marx' likely is.
Historically useful to me is the timeline engels made of ireland's history, which gives a basic understanding of ireland's struggle to exist against near-constant invasion and wars by the english, normans, scottish, danish, german, scandinavians, and so on. This was the historical setting from which the english were able to induce an occupying ruling class, manufactoring famines and enforcing mass exodus (particularly to strain the english working-class), and capturing a significant slave population for the atlantic slave trade. All this has me thinking of similarly-devastated islands and peoples attacked by capitalism and imperialism. For example, similar devastation, associations with slavery, frequent uprisings, manufactured dependence (upon empire), and centuries-long struggle to survive (which is ongoing today), is very similar to that of the history and present situation in Haiti.
Reading on, there was a reasonable amount I didn't understand, such as the excess of numbers, stats, and mathematical analysis of capitalism. I also had some trouble finding a good context for the many historical events, figures, and other such information talked about here. But it wasn't so bad I couldn't still process the basics among subjects I more closely understand (such as the repression of the working-class, through abuse of lease by landowners), and so I still learned a good amount.
This concluding fact is a bit sad considering the previous history book I read about ireland (written by an irish man) was less respectful and knowledgeable of ireland and its people, than was a series of interconnected writings by a couple of german communists.
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