In 1932 Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the Paris Manuscripts, are published for the first time in the Marx-Engels collected works: alienated labor, species-being, and communism as the riddle of history solved. The young Marx of the manuscripts transforms the tradition's self-understanding and arms its humanist wing against the dialectical materialism of the party textbooks.
Tagged: Marxism
The Event
- Date
- 1932 (exact)
- Era
- Revolution and Western Marxism; Standard periodization of Marxist history
- Location
- Berlin; today Berlin, Germany
- Traditions
- Marxism
- Streams
- Marxism
- Key figures
- Karl Marx
- Key texts
- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Connections
Primary Sources
- Marx, Karl. Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte. In Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, 1932 (written 1844).
Secondary Sources
- Anderson, Perry. Considerations on Western Marxism. London: New Left Books, 1976.
- Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
- McLellan, David. Karl Marx: A Biography. London: Palgrave Macmillan, fourth edition, 2006.
Provenance: HIST-1461; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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