Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Description

This predecessor to the Communist Manifesto offers a historical analysis of the human condition. It forms the foundation of the author's denunciation of capitalism, combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology in a philosophy of economics. Accessible and influential, this concise treatise is essential to an understanding of Marxist theory. Content: Wages of labour -- Profit of capital -- Rent of land -- Estranged labour -- Antithesis of capital and labour : landed property and capital -- Private property and labour : views of the merchantile system and physiocracy, Adam Smith, Ricardo, and his school -- Private property and communism : various stages of development of communist views, crude equalitarian communism and communism as socialism coinciding with humaneness -- The meaning of human requirements where there is private property and under socialism : the difference between extravagant wealth and industrial wealth, division of labour in bourgeois society -- The power of money in bourgeois society -- Critique of the Hegelian dialectic and philosophy as a whole.