Collected Works Volume 2, Engels: 1838–42

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works #2

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The Early Writings of Engels, Including Poems and Correspondence

703 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.

Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.

Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.

Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.

Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .

People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.

Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...

Reviews

[Chet]

This volume is subtitled Engels: 1838-42 and it includes much trivia. Letters Engels wrote to his sister. He talks about poetry readings he attended. In a quite scandalous section he admits to donning blackface at a party. Also some early op-eds and arguments against academics attacking Hegel from the right. This latter gets nice extensive coverage in a Chinese documentary about Engels's life that I recently subtitled and shared on Twitter.

A nice appendix featuring Engels birth certificate and a letter his father wrote to a friend bemoaning his teenage son's rebellious atheism. You get the idea. Only for the diehard fans and scholars I think.

[Titus Hjelm · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first two volumes of the MECW have been hard going, but for almost opposite reasons. Vol. 1, with Marx's early philosophical work, was turgid (with the exception of some of the early journalism). Vol. 2, composed of Engels's early work, includes light-hearted travel narrative, literary reviews, but also some biting critique of contemporary philosophical reaction in Germany, especially Schelling. For me the best bits were Engels's letters to the Graeber brothers, where he outlines his theological thinking. Despite the above-said, I'm happy I managed both these volumes, as they do provide a background for the philosophical and political writings and collaboration that starts in Vol. 3.

[Fnaught · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow 'Scenes from Oulanem' reads like something by a normal person who wasn't possessed by a Demon.