Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140445757 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 912 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-03 |
| Language | : | German |
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Language Notes Text: English, German (translation)
A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work Capital. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel's dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.. Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. Yet while the theories in Grundrisse make it a vital precursor to Capital, it also provides invaluable descriptions of Marx's wider-ranging philosophy, making it a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world
Critical Reading Christopher D. Wright Unlike many other works, the Grundrisse exposes in more obvious ways Marx's dialectical thought. The Introduction should really be read as a great antidote to the 1859 Preface to a Critique of Political Economy, which gave us the base-superstructure analogy. The weakest link in Marx's though may very well be found there. The Grundrisse Introduction starts from the point of view of class struggle, whereas there is no place for the class struggle as the driving force in the base-superstructure schema.Also, Grundrisse starts in a different plac. Antonio Tiago Santos said A classical of marxian economic thought. This book is a sketch of what would become, a couple of years later, the author's masterpiece: Das Kapital. It was written in an intense effort during revolutionary agitations in Europe, such hard work had as goal to show the inherent contradictions of capitalism and the way it would soon collapse. Well, capitalism did not collapse then and did not so far, but this book remains a classic in the critique of classical political economy. It is indded shorter than Das Kapital, and in parts not as mature as, but it has the advantage of providing . "This hardcover is a tiny, abridged version of the book" according to BP. Amazon continues to list this book as a hardcover; the only hardcover is a 160 or 190 page excerpt (depending on the edition) of Marx's Grundrisse, which is around 900 pages of material. I simply don't want others to continue ordering this not knowing what they're getting. It happened to me, and I was not pleased. This hardcover is the David McLellan excerpt, published around 1970. There appears to be no hardcover edition of the Grundrisse available anywhere.
Influenced by Hegel, he later reacted against idealist philosophy and began to develop his own theory of historical materialism. He lived in England as a refugee until his death in 1888, after participating in an unsuccessful revolution in Germany. He related the state of society to its economic foundations and mode of production, and recommended armed revolution on