The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto

Paperback, 243 pages

English language

Published March 1, 1988 by Prometheus.

ISBN:
978-0-87975-446-4
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OCLC Number:
3769625140

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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," "labor 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 …

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Junto con el Manifiesto, esta debe ser una de las obras que todo lector interesado en Karl Marx debiera consultar para iniciarse en las ideas del filósofo de Treveris, y no tan solo por interés en Marx como figura, sino como antipoda del legado que sería para los trabajadores del mundo el Materialismo Histórico. Un aporte también para cualquiera que busque orientarse dentro de las repercusiones que tiene la actividad económica capitalista en toda área de nuestras vidas.

Un escrito amigable, en el sentido de que es corto y recurre a un lenguaje metafórico que permite explicar las complejas relaciones sociales que operan bajo el sistema capitalista. Se aprecian dichas consideraciones teniendo en cuenta lo intrincada que son las materias tratada en el manuscrito. Vale también decir que conviene tener un bagaje previo en tanto los clásicos de la economía (Smith, Ricardo, etc) pero tanto como si no, de aquí …

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I finished reading this a week ago and still can't make much sense of it, I made the mistake of reading the text and not a book with an intro and notes discussing it. To me this was a mess, repetitive words which get on yer tits, ramblings that discuss outdated ideas. Now and then though I did grasp it's meaning and could see just how important this book would have been.


The saddest thing about this book is that it was written in 1848 and the only thing that has really changed is the gulf between the rich and the poor is even greater.

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Subjects

  • Economic theory & philosophy
  • Marxism & Communism
  • Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present
  • Political
  • History & Theory - General
  • Philosophy
  • Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism
  • Communism
  • Capital
  • Marxian economics
  • Economics