Formative Early Writings by Karl Marx - Karl Marx Audiobook
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Though Karl Marx is best known for Capital and The Communist Manifesto, his revolutionary thoughts and ideas had developed over decades spent in study, discussion and association with a variety of organisations throughout Europe and the US, intent on challenging the establishment order. These six very different texts show how Marx’s ideas evolved and how increasingly fierce his views became.
In ‘A Criticism of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’ (1843) (only the introduction was completed) - Marx proposes that the working class has a key part to play in the redemption of humanity. This short work contains one of his most famous epigrams, his criticism of religion as ’the opium of the people’. His growing concerns for the material and economic conditions under which the mass of the population live were revealed in ‘On the Jewish Question’ (1843), in which he declares that it is not religion that alienates people but their living conditions. Marx had been influenced by early views on materialism by, among others, Ludwig Feuerbach, but in the 11 short comments contained in ‘Theses on Feuerbach’, (written in 1843 but not published until 1888 by Engels) Marx made it clear that it was necessary to go past theory and invest in practical activity. As he declares in the last comment, ‘Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’
‘The German Ideology’ (1846) was another polemic against philosophers in which Marx (and Engels) could also propose their view on world history: ‘Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.’
‘The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon’ (1852) shows another side of Marx the writer – the historian. But in relating the French coup of 1851 when Louis-Napoleon became dictator, Marx wrote from his platform of increasingly strong views on class struggle and the capitalist state. ‘The Critique of Political Economy’ (1859) effectively previews Capital - but of particular interest here is the preface, in which he gives an account of the development of his philosophical, political and economic views and his materialist approach to history.
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This post has 7 comments
November 18th, 2018
Redolent of a genocidal recipe book.
November 18th, 2018
Too much time on your hands caesar963. How many audiobooks do you actually listen to?
When Marx was offering a critique of capitalism there was quite a lot of genocide going on.
November 18th, 2018
That portrait of Marx is missing the red ball on his nose.
November 18th, 2018
Way too much time, Doug. Couldn’t agree more. Although the comments take up comparatively little of it.
Slightly personal question, but I just finished listening to “Earthly Powers” - read it many years ago. One of the best books of the 20th Century, I’d hazard a guess. A bit of an epic. It almost seems to contain it’s century.
So Karl’s solution to all this killing was -significantly more genocide? Of the “concentrated…revolutionary terror” flavour which he was ever so partial to?
Thus far, the innocuous “critique of capitalism” which he humbly offered has resulted in almost 150 million deaths (will we ever truly know the real number?). I know you’re following the Venezuelan horror. And the developments in Chinese “democracy” - how proud Karl would be. He made the world a far better place…
Some characters desperately try to evade the embarrassing “problem” by sweatily insisting that Marxism just hasn’t been tried hard enough yet (?)
You and I would see through that toxic garbage, but there are many others not as well versed in history.
If the man himself could return to us and learn of all that has transpired, do you think that his considered assessment might be something like “Oops!”?
November 18th, 2018
@spaniel1 - And the blood-soaked fangs.
Marx was having extra-maritals with his live in maid, and when she told him she was pregnant with his child he kicked her out of the house. He didn’t want to increase the prole-count in his soviet-bloc.
He obviously hadn’t arrived at the “to each according to their needs” bit.
November 19th, 2018
Karl Marx! Seriously?
“The usual sign of confusion in our basic ideas on any topic is the persistence of rival doctrines, all many times refuted yet not abandoned. In a system of thought that is fundamentally clear, even if not entirely so, new theories usually make old ones obsolete. In a field where the basic concepts are not clear, conflicting outlooks and terminologies continue, side by side, to recruit adherents” Susan K. Langer - FEELING AND FORM
November 20th, 2018
That’s politics for you, marco.
I can never understand why Marxism is not as despised as Nazism/Fascism. Or even more despised, seeing that it resulted in overwhelmingly more murders, and employed many of the same evil practices.
All of them despicable creeds which should be consigned to the rubbish heap of history.
Disgusting ‘isms’ which deserve to be ‘wasms’ - social, political and economic systems which demonstrated their failure in every iteration.
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