Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International

290 Pages·2017·2.63 MB·English

Another Marx
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Another Marx
Early Manuscripts to the International
Marcello Musto
T ranslated by Patrick Camiller
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To George and Ann,
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Notice x
Introduction 1
1. Th e Marx revival 1
2. New research paths 4
3. Chronology of Marx’s writings 7
Part 1 Intellectual Infl uences and Early Writings
1 Childhood, Youth and University Studies 15
1. Th e rabbi manqué 15
2. At school in Trier and s tudiosus juris in Bonn 18
3. Into the arms of the enemy 24
4. A young Hegelian in Berlin 28
2 Th e Encounter with Political Economy 33
1. Paris: Capital of the nineteenth century 33
2. Classics of political economy and alienated labour 34
3. Manuscripts and notebooks of excerpts: Th e papers of 1844 42
4. From critical philosophy to revolutionary praxis 45
Part 2 Th e Critique of Political Economy
3 Waiting for the Economic Crisis 55
1. Continuing the study of economics 55
2. In the solitude of exile 59
3. Research notes of 1850–1853 65
4. Th e trial of the communists and personal hardships 74
5. Articles on the crisis for the N ew-York Tribune 76
4 At the Time of the G rundrisse 83
1. Th e fi nancial crisis of 1857 and the date with the revolution 83
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2. History and the social individual 86
3. Poverty in London 95
4. In search of a method 99
5. Writing the Grundrisse 106
6. Struggling against bourgeois society 111
5 Th e Polemic against Carl Vogt 117
1. Herr Vogt 117
2. Fighting misery and disease 126
3. In the meantime ‘Economics’ waits 128
4. Journalism and international politics 131
6 Capital : Th e Unfi nished Critique 137
1. Critical analysis of theories of surplus- value 137
2. Th e writing of the three volumes 149
3. Th e completion of Volume I 155
4. In search of the defi nitive version 165
Part 3 Political Militancy
7 Th e Birth of the International Working Men’s Association 171
1. Th e right man in the right place 171
2. Organizational development and growth 178
3. Th e defeat of the mutualists 189
8 Th e Revolution in Paris 199
1. Th e struggle for liberation in Ireland 199
2. Opposition to the Franco-Prussian War 204
3. Th e Paris Commune takes power 208
4. Th e political turn of the London conference 215
9 Th e Confl ict with Bakunin 221
1. Th e crisis of the International 221
2. Marx versus Bakunin 230
3. Two opposing conceptions of revolution 236
4. Socialism in Russia? 240
Bibliography 249
Index 267