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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Marx's Early Writings on Alienation, Labor, Private Property, and Human Freedom
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617202919
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Mar 7 2011
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 reveal the early philosophical foundation of his critique of capitalism, labor, alienation, private property, and human freedom. Written before Capital and before the mature system most closely associated with Marxism, these manuscripts show Marx working through questions of political economy, philosophy, material life, and the human cost of a society organized around ownership, wages, and estranged labor.
In these writings, Marx examines how workers become alienated from the products they create, from the labor they perform, from other human beings, and from their own human potential. He engages with political economists, German philosophy, communism, private property, money, need, and the meaning of human development under capitalism. The result is one of the most important texts for understanding Marx's early humanism and the moral, social, and philosophical concerns behind his later economic work.
For readers interested in Marxism, political philosophy, economic theory, labor, socialism, alienation, critical theory, and nineteenth-century intellectual history, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 remains essential. It is a key work for seeing Marx not only as an economist or revolutionary theorist, but as a thinker deeply concerned with what capitalism does to human beings and what genuine human emancipation might require.
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