loyalty day, fuck off!

[Foose]

Originally Posted by babylon_yen

dude, i can't get down with young idealist marx the way i can with his work after 1845. especially when those earlier humanist and more teleological works are read without acknowledging the the subsequent transformation of his philosophy.

but at least people are reading something other than the communist manifesto and claiming that a pamphlet produced at a moment of particular historical expediency sums up "marxism" and/or the communist project.

I really like young Marx for the reason you mentioned, the idealism in it. Granted, I understand the inability of it occurring just as he wrote, but I think most people should read it before reading later marx, at least portions of it. It seems that without having a background knowledge on Marx's development of thought much meaning found in later work, Capitol, hell even the Manifesto, it can be lost. For example looking at his ideas for the emergence of private property or his rejection of the German Ideology really sets the stage for his base stages of history and for their future evolution.

[babylon_yen]

i don't really understand what you're talking about after the first sentence. it's not that i haven't read the 1844 manuscripts, or don't get the importance of 'the german ideology'... i just don't understand the actual sentences.

but since this is a may day thread, i think i'm more into letting this thread sink for another year than discussing younger marx's preoccupations with religion and hegel's telos of history.