L'ideologia tedesca

by Karl Marx

Other authorsGiuliano Pischel (Editor)
Paper Book, 1947

Status

Available

Call number

335.411

Collection

Publication

Milano, Istituto Editoriale Italiano

Description

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism. They chart the course of "true" socialism based on Hegel's dialectic, while criticizing the ideas of Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner, and Ludwig Feuerbach. Marx expanded his criticism of the latter in his now famous Theses on Feuerbach, found after Marx's death and published by Engels in 1888. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy, also found among the posthumous papers of Marx, is a fragment of an introduction to his main works. Combining these three works, this volume is essential for an understanding of Marxism.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Hanuman2
Sometimes difficult and boring, but the scattered diamonds make it required reading.
LibraryThing member amydross
Loses half a point for not being the world's most consistently readable text, and more repetition than one would hope for. But really, an undeniably foundational text for anyone in the world of critical theory. Even after all these years, it still has the power to make one question everything.

Language

Original language

German

Original publication date

1932

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