The German Ideology

By Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Frederick Engels

Book Overview

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas: i.e., the class, which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore the ideas of its dominance." - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2493844238
• ISBN13: 9782493844231
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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.