- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS; 1 edition (Dec 31 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 087975446X
- ISBN-13: 978-0879754464
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #456,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential "Communist Manifesto (1848)", enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new political vocabulary peppered with 'socialism', 'capitalism', 'the working class', 'the bourgeoisie', 'labor theory of value', 'alienation', 'economic determinism', 'dialectical materialism', and 'historical materialism'. Marx's economic analysis of history has been a powerful legacy, the effects of which continue to be felt world-wide. Serving as the foundation for Marx's indictment of capitalism is his extraordinary work titled "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts", written in 1844 but published nearly a century later. Here Marx offers his theory of human nature and an analysis of emerging capitalism's degenerative impact on man's sense of self and his creative potential. What is man's true nature? How did capitalism gain such a foothold on Western society? What is alienation and how does it threaten to undermine the proletariat? These and other vital questions are addressed as the youthful Marx sets forth his first detailed assessment of the human condition.
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Essential Marxism,
By Costas Foren (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Economic Philosophic Manuscripts (Paperback)
With the crumbling of the Berlin Wall--symbolizing for many the end of the relevance of Marx's political theory--and the veering toward a "third way" (read, neo-liberal way) in various Western European countries by formerly avowed socialist parties, Marxism, and its brand of socialism, is now universally assumed to be an historical artifact, and maybe neither a very interesting nor productive one at that. "The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" offers a point of rebuttal to those neo-liberals and their quick-handed assumptions that the totality of Marx's theory can be gleaned from The Communist Manifesto, a work written with the intention of motivating political action. The "Manuscripts" is an essential read for those seeking Marx's revlevancy in the 21st century.
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The Marxian question,
By suneeti rekhari (New Delhi, India) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Economic Philosophic Manuscripts (Paperback)
The Paris manuscripts go back to a young and idealist Marx - perhaps one which few would bother to read, as today the concentration (and much contempt of Marxian theory) is based on his contributons to the understandings of a communist state. All that can be said is that Marx was trying not only to understand man as "homo economicus" (as seen clearly in Capital) but also as "homo sociologicus"...a fact which students of sociology should not forget.
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this is a very important book of Karl Marx,
By A Customer
This review is from: Economic Philosophic Manuscripts (Paperback)
If someone think this manscript of Marx is the key book which can tell us all the phil. thought of Karl, I don't think he has caught the real content of this guy. the point here is that Marx's philosophy should be understood on the backgroud of all his thought including his economic thought and political thought. After 1845, Marx, as I think, gave up his former phil. ideas. what he think about then is how to put forward a new phil. and make it help him construct his political economic system which other economicians will not give out due to their different phil. style of thinking. for example, adam smith, I can say, adam is absolutely impossible to put forward a economics just the same as marx even if he were in the same era of marx.
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