Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The Great Project 1
Misconceptions and Exaggerations 7
The Diversity of the Books 8
A Great, Unfinished Body of Work 13
A Guide Through the Work 16
2 The Time of Revolutions 21
The Industrial Revolution 21
Reorganization of the Sciences … 26
… And of Philosophy 30
The Revolutions 33
3 The Darling of Fortune 39
Background 39
Family 42
Student and Poet 45
Jenny von Westphalen 51
Father and Son 53
The Letter to His Father 57
The Young Hegelians 59
The Doctoral Thesis 68
The Families 74
The Journalist 78
On the Way Out 88
Hegel's Philosophy of Law, the Jewish Question, and Analysis of the Mystical 94
4 In Paris 107
A Simmering Environment 107
In Salons and Cafés 108
Socialism and Communism 112
Wilhelm Weitling 115
Vorwärts, the Weavers' Uprising, and Ruge 120
Friedrich Engels 125
5 The Manuscripts 133
Belated Renown 133
A Great Project Is Born 134
The Struggle between Worker, Capitalist, and Landowner 137
Alienated Labour 140
Private Property and Communism 146
Needs, Division of Labour, and Money 154
And Finally, Hegel… 156
An Important Stage in Marx's Development 158
6 The Years of Ruptures 161
The Holy Family 161
A Painful Farewell and a New Life 166
The German Ideology 172
Max Stirner and His Book 180
The Hard Edges of Polemics 196
The Poverty of Philosophy 204
Theory and Practice 216
7 The Manifesto and the Revolutions 219
The Struggle for Influence 219
Wandering Journeymen, Intellectuals, and a few Industrial Workers 225
A Catechism Becomes a Manifesto 228
The Time of Revolts 242
The Impotence of Parliament and Freedom of the Press 248
Retreats 260
With Words as Weapons 263
8 Difficult Times, Difficult Losses 267
Ideological Change 267
Poverty and Death 275
9 Journalist on Two Continents 291
Work, Despite Everything 291
The Neue Rheinische Zeitung as Periodical 294
A Little Masterwork that Brought in 'Less Than Nothing' 303
Conquering the World with a Pen 312
The Workers and Their Opportunities 318
Political and Economic Crises 323
London and the World 326
The United States and the World 333
10 The Most Intensive Effort 341
The Grundrisse 341
A New Joy and a Sick Liver 342
Independent Work, or Preparatory? 343
A Flow Teeming with Ideas 348
Totality, According to Marx 359
Economy and Philosophy 362
Internal Discord 366
A More Manageable Project? 370
Base and Superstructure 373
Value and Money 378
The Chapter on Capital 381
Society Beyond Capitalism 384
The Great Matrix 393
11 The Unfinished Masterpiece 395
New Trials 396
The Long Road to Volume I 399
The Structure of Capital 405
The Interpreters 424
Essence and Appearance; Form and Content; Surface and Depth 434
Natural and Supernatural; Freedom and Equality 439
Striving for Exactitude 442
Historical Development in Capital 449
Humanity and Classes 455
The Unknown Masterpiece 462
12 Twin Souls or a Tragic Mistake? 467
Mathematics 470
Encounter with the Natural Sciences 474
Carl Schorlemmer 481
Quantity turns into Quality 485
Anti-Dühring 492
'The Foundation of Our Theory' 500
Human Prehistory 507
Interpreting the World and Changing it 514
Conclusion 524
13 Marx the Politician 527
Herr Vogt 530
The International 531
The Address 535
Value, Price, and Profit 541
Bakunin and Marx 544
The Paris Commune of 1871 552
The Dissolution of the International 561
The German Social Democrats 563
Critique of the Gotha Programme 568
The Russian Road 572
The Forms of Politics 578
14 Statues, Malicious Portraits, and the Work 585
The Road from Highgate to the Winter Palace 587
The Soviet Union, Orthodoxy, and Deviationists 600
The Range of Deviationists 603
The Sum Total of Marx 613
Marx and Posterity 620
Postscript 629
Marx Chronology 631
Notes 635
Index 725
