Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a
thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been
said and written. However, the international economic crisis of
2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently
published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA(2)) have
provided researchers with new texts that underline the gulf between
Marx's critical theory and the dogmatism of many twentieth-century
Marxisms. This work reconstructs with great textual and historical
rigour, but in a form accessible to those encountering Marx for the
first time, a number of little noted, or often misunderstood,
stages in his intellectual biography. The book is divided into
three parts. The first - 'Intellectual Influences and Early
Writings' - investigates the formation of the young Marx and the
composition of his Parisian manuscripts of 1844. The second - 'The
Critique of Political Economy' - focuses on the genesis of Marx's
magnum opus, beginning with his studies of political economy in the
early 1850s and following his labours through to all the
preparatory manuscripts for Capital. The third - 'Political
Militancy' - presents an insightful history of the International
Working Men's Association and of the role that Marx played in that
organization. The volume offers a close and innovative examination
of Marx's ideas on post-Hegelian philosophy, alienated labour, the
materialist conception of history, research methods, the theory of
surplus-value, working-class self-emancipation, political
organization and revolutionary theory. From this emerges "another
Marx", a thinker very different from the one depicted by so many of
his critics and ostensible disciples.
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