The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach

By Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Frederick Engels

Book Overview

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism. They chart the course of true socialism based on Hegel's dialectic, while criticizing the ideas of Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner, and Ludwig Feuerbach. Marx expanded his criticism of the latter in his now famous Theses on Feuerbach, found after Marx's death and published by Engels in 1888. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy, also found among the posthumous papers of Marx, is a fragment of an introduction to his main works. Combining these three works, this volume is essential for an understanding of Marxism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573922587
• ISBN13: 9781573922586
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Marxist must

The German Ideology wasn’t published in Marx or Engels’ lifetimes, but it is undoubtedly one of their most important works for its elaboration and defense of historical materialism, critique of idealists viz. Feuerbach and Stirner, clarification of the *international* character of proletarian class struggle, and other contributions describing the characteristics of communist society. This edition also includes the similarly influential Theses on Feuerbach and Intro. to the Critique of Political Economy, the latter especially important for those interested in a Marxist epistemology.