Marx After Marxism : The Philosophy of Karl Marx

Marx After Marxism encourages readers to understand Karl Marx in new ways, unencumbered by political Marxist interpretations that have long dominated the discussions of both Marxists and non-Marxists. This volume gives a broad and accessible account of Marx's philosophy and emphasizes his relationship to Hegel. Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx 5 Contents 9 List of Abbreviations 11 Introduction 12 1 Hegel, Marx, and Marxism 23 On Distinguishing Between Marx and Marxism 23 Engels and the Marxist View of Marx 26 Marx and Engels 30 About Marx’s Texts 32 Marx, Engels, and Marx’s Texts 35 Interpreting Marx’s Texts 36 Hegel as a Way into Marx 37 Marx and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 41 Philosophical Economics, the Industrial Revolution, and Adam Smith 43 Hegel and Economics 47 Hegel on Property 50 Marx and Hegel: Some Tentative Conclusions 51 2 Marx’s Early Writings 60 Marx’s Life and Thought 60 Marx’s Early Writings 61 Hegelianism in Marx’s Dissertation 63 Feuerbach and Marx’s Early Critique of Hegel 66 More Early Criticism of Hegel: “On the Jewish Question” 71 More Early Criticism of Hegel: “Contribution to the Critique of ‘Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’: Introduction” 72 Introduction to the Paris Manuscripts 75 Engels and Marx’s Economic View of Modern Society 77 Marx’s Theory of Alienation 83 Criticism of Hegel in the Paris Manuscripts 85 Marxian Humanism, Philosophy, and Political Economy 89 3 Marx’s Transitional Writings 96 “Theses on Feuerbach” 96 The German Ideology 100 The Poverty of Philosophy 107 Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 112 4 Marx’s Mature Economic Writings 135 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 136 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy 145 The Publication History of Capital 147 Prefatory Materials to Capital 150 Capital 155 5 Marx and Hegel Revisited 181 Prior Discussion of Marx’s Relation to Hegel 183 Hegel in Marx’s Writings 185 Hegel and Marx on Private Property 187 Hegel and Marx on History and Freedom 189 Hegel and Marx’s Critique of Political Economy 196 Hegel and Marx’s Theory of Political Economy 198 Marx the Hegelian 199 6 Marx the Hegelian 205 Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Philosophy 206 Hegel and History 207 Contradiction and Marx’s Economic Approach to History 209 Contradiction, Identity, and Commodities in Capital 215 Marx and Contemporary Philosophy 217 Select Bibliography 233 Index 238 This text argues that political Marxist influence obscures, transforms, distorts, and renders inaccessible Marx's basic philosophical insights. It concentrates on recovering Marx's philosophical ideas within the larger Hegelian framework The immediate task is to distinguish between Marxism and Marx, since it is only in that way that we can raise again the question of Marx's relation to his philosophical roots, in particular his relation to Hegel.