<< Therefore several books designed to serve as introductions to
Marx’s thought. Books of selections need to be placed within a context and
cannot be read continuously with much profit. Most commentaries, on the other
hand, quote too little from Marx’s writings and treat his ideas as a static
system with little reference to any change or development in his ideas. It is
therefore the aim of this book to provide the elementary groundwork essential
for an understanding of Marx’s thought by giving, in the first half, a straight
descriptive account of Marx’s writings in chronological order with a small
amount of biographical detail; in the second half, a synoptic approach is
adopted with an exposition of certain themes central to Marx’s thought and
relevant selections from his writings attached to each chapter.
Author: David McLellan
Press: The Macmillan
Publication year: January 1971
Introduction:
<< Therefore several books designed to serve as introductions to Marx’s thought. Books of selections need to be placed within a context and cannot be read continuously with much profit. Most commentaries, on the other hand, quote too little from Marx’s writings and treat his ideas as a static system with little reference to any change or development in his ideas. It is therefore the aim of this book to provide the elementary groundwork essential for an understanding of Marx’s thought by giving, in the first half, a straight descriptive account of Marx’s writings in chronological order with a small amount of biographical detail; in the second half, a synoptic approach is adopted with an exposition of certain themes central to Marx’s thought and relevant selections from his writings attached to each chapter.
Table of contents: Part one
1. biography 3, 1837-1843
2. biography 16, 1843-1844
3. biography 29, 1845-1847
4. biography 40, 1848-1850
5. biography 50, 1850-1852
6. biography 62, 1853-1859
7. biography 78, 1860-1879
8. biography 92, 1864-1882
Part two : One: Alienation
Two: Historical materialism
Three: Dialectic
Four: Ideology
Five: Labour
Six: Class
Seven: The party
Eight: The state
Nine: Revolution
Ten: Future communist society