Early Political Writings

The political doctrine of Karl Marx is to be found in a broad range of both published and unpublished writings. This volume, the first of two which together span his entire output, presents his early texts of 1843–7, which predate the Communist Manifesto. excerpts from the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and from the Paris Notebooks, Points on the State and Bourgeois Society and other writings are newly translated and arranged in a sequence that illuminates the development of Marx’s thought, while the introduction discusses the intellectual context of the theories he constructed. A chronology of Marx’s life and career and an annotated bibliography complete a volume which will be an invaluable guide to the formation of one of the most influential doctrines in the history of political thought.

• The first of two volumes which together will span the entire development of Marx’s political thought • Texts are newly translated • Includes a number of excerpts not hitherto available to the student reader

1. From the critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right; 2. On the Jewish question: a contribution to the critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right; 3. Introduction; 4. From the Paris notebooks; 5. Critical marginal notes on ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform, by a Prussian’; 6. Points on the State and Bourgeois Society; 7. On Feuerbach: from ‘The German Ideology’, chapter 1: ‘Feuerbach’; From ‘Poverty of Philosophy’; 8. Address on Poland.