The German Ideology

the German Ideology is a work of Karl Marx written in collaboration with Friedrich Engels around April May 1846. Marx and Engels had not found of editor at the time. However their work was found and published for the first posthumous time of way in 1932 by David Riazanov via the Marx-Engels institute of Moscow.

The book is composed of several parts, and contains in particular many satirical polemics. The first part, entitled Feuerbach is an introduction actually written after the second and third parts, and thus resembles more one conclusion; Marx does not make the criticism of Ludwig Feuerbach but reconsiders its criticism of the Jeunes hégéliens and exposes the bases of the historical materialism. The second part, Saint Bruno is a polemic directed against Bruno Bauer, but it makes some acts more than one preamble with the third part, Marx having already criticized Bauer in the Holy Family . The third part, Saint max is bulkiest by far because it occupies the three quarters of the book, it acts of a vast critic of the book of max Stirner, the Single one and its property ; criticism is strongly marked seal of the polemic, Marx being baited on Stirner by calling it saint max then holy Sancho, comparing it with Don Quichotte then with her servant Sancho Panza, and devoting to a criticism almost word for word of the work of Stirner. It will be noted besides that the criticism of Marx is bulkier than the book of Stirner and even as the whole of the writings of Stirner. So in this critic Marx disputes the majority of the assertions of Stirner, one can only note that it is partly by criticizing Stirner that Marx works out its design materialist of the history; it is also noticed that under the criticism of Stirner, Marx is seen almost forced to give up at the same time the Utopian socialism and of the authors like Proudhon or Wilhelm Weitling, and especially the philosophy of Feuerbach which it does not defend against the attacks of Stirner. A second volume, written by Engels, is directed against socialism " vrai" , political tendency of the time. Since its first publication, the specialists in Marx found this work of great value because it is perhaps the exposure of the theory of the history according to most comprehensible Marx longest and detailed and thus.

Publication

In the majority of the editions only the first part is published, which reduces the size of the work considerably. One often finds, in preamble, the Thèses on Feuerbach.

Extract

“Indeed, as of the moment when work starts to be distributed, each one has an exclusive and determined sphere of activity which is imposed to him and it cannot leave; it is hunter, fishing or shepherd or critical critic, and it must remain it if it does not want to lose his means of existence; while in the communist company, where each one does not have an exclusive sphere of activity, but can improve in the branch which it likes, the company regulates the general production what creates for me the possibility of making such thing today, tomorrow such other, of driving out the morning, to fish the afternoon, to practice the breeding the evening, to make criticism after the meal, according to my good pleasure, without never becoming hunter, fishing or critical. ”

See too

External bonds

First part of '' the German Ideology ''
'' Die deutsche Ideology ''
entirety of the original text on the site of the University of Quebec to Chicoutimi

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