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The period immediately following the suppression of the Rheinische Zeitung was extraordinarily eventful for Marx: in personal life it included a new career decision, marriage, and emigration from his native land; in intellectual development it saw his endorsement of revolution as a means, a major reckoning with Hegel, and—most significantly—conversion to communism.
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Notes
Edmund Silberner, Moses Hess: Geschichte seines Lebens ( Leiden: Brill, 1966 ), pp. 121–22.
Jean Hyppolite, “Marx’s Critique of the Hegelian Concept of the State,” in his Studies on Marx and Hegel, trans. John O’Neill ( New York: Basic Books, 1969 ), pp. 108–10.
Other authorities on Hegel include Walter H. Kaufmann, Hegel ( Garden City: Doubleday, 1965 )
J. N. Findlay, Hegel: A Re-examination (New York: Macmillan, 1958); and
Z. A. Pelczynski, “An Introductory Essay,” in Hegel’s Political Writings, trans. T. M. Knox ( Oxford: Clarendon, 1964 ), pp. 5137.
Alfred E. Zimmern, The Greek Commonwealth, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford, 1931), p. 175 (not including the armed forces). My thumbnail description of the Athenian state is taken from Zimmern’s excellent analysis.
Stanley Moore, Three Tactics: The Background in Marx ( New York: Monthly Review, 1963 ), pp. 14–16.
J. L. Talmon, Political Messianism: The Romantic Phase (New York: Praeger, 1960), p. 211 and passim.
Adam B. Ulam, The Unfinished Revolution: An Essay on the Sources of Influence of Marxism and Communism ( New York: Random House, 1960 ), p. 6.
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Hunt, R.N. (1974). Marx’s Conversion to Communism. In: The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02661-6_3
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