The German Ideology

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview including positions on materialism labor production alienation the expansion of capitalism class conflict revolution and eventually communism. They chart the course of true socialism based on Hegel's dialectic while criticizing the ideas of Bruno Bauer Max Stirner and Ludwig Feuerbach. Marx expanded his criticism of the latter in his now famous Theses on Feuerbach found after Marx's death and published by Engels in 1888. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy also found among the posthumous papers of Marx is a fragment of an introduction to his main works. Combining these three works this volume is essential for an understanding of Marxism.