Written in the winter of 1846–7 as a response to Proudhon’s Système
des Contradictions Economique ou Philosophie de la Misère, this is
essential background for appreciating Marx’s later work, including
Capital and his Communist Manifesto. Here, Marx begins to explore
such concepts as constituted or synthetic value, the division of
labor and machinery, competition and monopoly, strikes and the
combination of workmen, and free trade, all of which would later come
to play important roles in his social and political philosophy.
Anyone wishing to understand Marx’s approach to capitalism as an
oppressor of the proletariat and as a movement destined to collapse
must consider this required reading. Prussian philosopher KARL MARX
(1818-1883) was a social scientist, historian, and political
revolutionary. He is indisputably the most influential socialist
thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although scholars largely
ignored him in his own lifetime, his social, economic, and political
ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his
death.
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