Marx, the Critic

  • Birth

    Trier, Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia
    (now Trier, Germany)
  • Period: to

    Trier, Kingdom of Prussia

  • [M] Early Writings

    Unpublished
    written in 1833-4 basis for his views on alienation, the state, representative government, democracy and human nature, and the foundations of 'historical materialism'.
  • Unsatisfied with Kant and Fichte

    • Giddens 1973
  • [M] Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

    Unpublished notes
    .
    The notebooks are an early expression of Marx's analysis of economics, chiefly Adam Smith, and critique of the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. (Wikipedia)
    .
    The historical dimension integrating political economy and socialism was provided by the Hegelian dialectic. (Giddens, xiv, 1973)
    .
    heavily influenced by Feuerbach (1841)
  • [M] Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

    Unpublished
    Critique of Hegel's (1820)
    written in 1843-4
    Introduction published in a newspaper in 1944
    .
    heavily influenced by Feuerbach (1841)
  • [M] The German Ideology

    Unpublished Book with Engels
  • [P] Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

    Pamphlet published in German language in London
    The Communist Manifesto
    with Engels Commissioned by the Communist League just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt. It was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents. - Wikipedia It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. - Wikipedia
  • Death

    London, England, United Kingdom
  • Timeline References

    References
    Giddens - Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1973)
  • Timeline Description