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During the summer of 1844 Marx began to elaborate on the idea Engels had outlined in the Deutsche-Französische Jahrbücher. In doing so he attributed to the workings of the economy the features he had formerly associated with the state. In the manuscripts he compiled at Paris it was no longer the state which was fixed as an Abstraction outside of and in conflict with man’s Social quality, but the economic categories which were Abstractions from man’s Essential species-being.
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F.T. Vischer, Aesthetik oder Wissenschafl des Schönen, 3 vols (Reutlingen, Leipzig and Stuttgart, 1846–1854).
K. Marx, Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie (Berlin, 1859), p. 7; MEGA2 II/2, p. 107.
Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie Erstes Heft, Berlin, 1859.
A. von Haxthausen, Studien über die inneren Zustände, das Volksleben und insbesondere die ländlichen Einrichtungen Russlands, Vol. I (Hannover, 1847), p. XII.
A. Dopsch, The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilisation (London, 1937), p. 13.
G. Maurer, Einleitung zur Geschichte der Mark-, Hof-, Dorf-, und Stadt-Verfassung und der öffentlichen Gewalt (Munich, 1854), p. 3.
At the time this letter was written the works by Maurer which Marx had read were Einleitung zur Geschichte der Mark-, Hof-, Dorf-, und Stadt-Verfassung und der öffentlichen Gewalt (Munich, 1854) and Geschichte der Markenverfassung in Deutschland, 2 vols (Erlangen, 1865–66). See H. Harstick, Karl Marx über Formen vorkapitalistischer Produktion (Frankfurt/New York, 1977), p. 246.
K. Marx, Le Capital, traduction de M.J. Roy, entièrement revisée par l’auteur (Paris, 1872–5), p. 220; MEGA2 II/7, p. 855.
K. Marx, Das Kapital, 2nd edn (Hamburg, 1872), p. 822; MEGA2 II/6, p. 709.
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White, J.D. (1996). Marx. In: Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374218_5
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