Contents
- List of Figures
- Notice
- Introduction
- 1. The Marx revival
- 2. New research paths
- 3. Chronology of Marx’s writings
- Part 1 Intellectual Influences and Early Writings
- 1 Childhood, Youth and University Studies
- 1. The rabbi manqué
- 2. At school in Trier and studiosus juris in Bonn
- 3. Into the arms of the enemy
- 4. A young Hegelian in Berlin
- 2 The Encounter with Political Economy
- 1. Paris: Capital of the nineteenth century
- 2. Classics of political economy and alienated labour
- 3. Manuscripts and notebooks of excerpts: The papers of 1844
- 4. From critical philosophy to revolutionary praxis
- Part 2 The Critique of Political Economy
- 3 Waiting for the Economic Crisis
- 1. Continuing the study of economics
- 2. In the solitude of exile
- 3. Research notes of 1850–1853
- 4. The trial of the communists and personal hardships
- 5. Articles on the crisis for the New-York Tribune
- 4 At the Time of the Grundrisse
- 1. The financial crisis of 1857 and the date with the revolution
- 2. History and the social individual
- 3. Poverty in London
- 4. In search of a method
- 5. Writing the Grundrisse
- 6. Struggling against bourgeois society
- 5 The Polemic against Carl Vogt
- 1. Herr Vogt
- 2. Fighting misery and disease
- 3. In the meantime ‘Economics’ waits
- 4. Journalism and international politics
- 6 Capital: The Unfinished Critique
- 1. Critical analysis of theories of surplus-value
- 2. The writing of the three volumes
- 3. The completion of Volume I
- 4. In search of the definitive version
- Part 3 Political Militancy
- 7 The Birth of the International Working Men’s Association
- 1. The right man in the right place
- 2. Organizational development and growth
- 3. The defeat of the mutualists
- 8 The Revolution in Paris
- 1. The struggle for liberation in Ireland
- 2. Opposition to the Franco-Prussian War
- 3. The Paris Commune takes power
- 4. The political turn of the London conference
- 9 The Conflict with Bakunin
- 1. The crisis of the International
- 2. Marx versus Bakunin
- 3. Two opposing conceptions of revolution
- 4. Socialism in Russia?
- Bibliography
- Index