Marx on Economics

by Karl Marx, Robert Freedman (Editor), Harry Schwartz (Introduction)

Marx, Economics.

Genres: Economics, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Philosophy

251 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

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/
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...

Reviews

[Jonathan Norton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like psychoanalysis and literary criticism, economics is now a completely discredited field that no sentient being takes seriously on its own terms. It only has a historical interest, as a collection of superstitions that were accepted in various epochs. The Marxist variety are important for the influence they had over a range of cultural forces, mostly artistic. The actual theories are a load of old crap, but 2 things need to be borne in mind: (1) the central fallacies are not original to Marx, and were simply taken over from preceding liberal windbags such as Locke, Smith and Ricardo, and (2) absolutely nothing written here has anything to do with the centrally-planned disasters of the old "communist bloc". None of Marx's remarks about the nature of a future communist economy were embodied in the USSR or elsewhere, nor did those countries make any attempt to manage the system using the concepts of labour-value. You can't blame him for all those deaths and all that waste and incompetence, though that's because (like all the others) he wrote about abstractions. The fact that his abstractions were not as ludicrously unreal as the ones entertained by the earlier bourgeois economists does not make them usefully better. It just means De Quincey had it right when he dismissed the whole field of political economy some years previously.

[Sinan Öner]

Karl Marx's writings' selection on economics was published by Pelican with the editing of Robert Freedman in 1961. Now, 62 years later, before 1 May Labour Day in the World, Karl Marx's book can be very useful during the pandemic crisis which spread especially in the capitalist industrial societies. When Karl Marx writes on economics, on the different concepts, relations or things of capitalist social development, he observes about everything (every objects, every products, every relationships of capitalist societies), Karl Marx's students think on about everything together with Karl Marx - Karl Marx's students like the student Karl Marx who studies on the social structure of his age in his writing. Karl Marx says that he studied on the all literature critically- since the ancient to the modern- about economic history of the world, he uses dialectical materialist method to conceptualize the capitalism - he works in the Aristotelian tradition. Karl Marx's writings on economics which began in his young works flow to his oldest works, we can follow Karl Marx's knowledge, thoughts, judgements for the economic history of the world.

[Kevin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Improved my understanding of the subject.