Selected Writings

by Marx, Karl; Simon, Lawrence H.

• ISBN13: 9780872202184
• ISBN10: 0872202186
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

Featuring the most important and enduring works from Marx's enormous corpus, this thoughtful new collection spans Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. Organized both topically and in rough chronological order, the selections include writings from Marx's early more purely philosophical works, the central writings on historical materialism, excerpts from Capitaland writings of a more political nature from his later period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix	(28)
Selected Bibliography	xxxvii
I. Early Philosophical Writings	1	(101)
On the Jewish Question	1	(26)
Toward a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction	27	(13)
Excerpt-Notes of 1844 (selections)	40	(14)
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (selections)	54	(44)
Preface	56	(2)
Alienated Labor	58	(10)
Private Property and Communism	68	(11)
Critique of Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy in General	79	(2)
Phenomenology	81	(17)
Theses on Feuerbach	98	(4)
II. Writings on Historical Materialism	102	(112)
The German Ideology, Part I (selections)	102	(55)
The Communist Manifesto	157	(30)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (selections)	187	(22)
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	209	(5)
III. Economic Writings	214	(87)
Capital, Volume One (selections)	214	(87)
Preface to the First Edition	216	(4)
Chapter 1: The Commodity Sections 1, 2, and 4	220	(24)
Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange	244	(8)
From Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities	252	(3)
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital	255	(9)
Chapter 6: The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power	264	(10)
Chapter 7: The Labour Process and the Valorization Process	274	(20)
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation	294	(3)
Chapter 32: The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation	297	(4)
IV. Late Political Writings	301
The Civil War in France (excerpt)	301	(14)
Critique of the Gotha Program	315	(18)
Marginal Notes on Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy (excerpt)	333