{"product_id":"the-poverty-of-philosophy-paperback-2","title":"The Poverty of Philosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in French, Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) was composed during his years in Brussels, when he was developing his economic views and, through confrontations with the chief leaders of the working-class movement, establishing his intellectual standing.In this classic work, which laid the foundation of ideas later developed in Capital, Marx polemicized against then premier French socialist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon wanted to unite the best features of such contraries as competition and monopoly. He hoped to save the good features of economic institutions while eliminating the bad. Marx, however, declared that no equilibrium was possible between the antagonisms in any given economic system. Social structures were transient historical forms determined by the productive forces: \"The handmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the stream mill, society with the industrial capitalist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKARL MARX\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Trier, Prussia, on May 5, 1818, to an intellectual Jewish family. At seventeen he enrolled at the University of Bonn and a year later transferred to the University of Berlin where he became interested in the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. In 1841, Marx obtained his doctorate in philosophy, having presented a thesis on post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a young graduate deeply involved in the radical Hegelian movement, Marx found it difficult to secure a teaching post in the autocratic environment of Prussian society. In 1842 he became editor of the Cologne newspaper \u003ci\u003eRheinische Zeitung, \u003c\/i\u003ebut his probing eco-nomic critiques prompted the government to close the publication, whereupon Marx left for France. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile in Paris, Marx quickly became involved with emigre Ger-man workers and French socialists, and soon he was persuaded to the communist point of view. His first expression of these views oc-curred in the \u003ci\u003eEconomic and Philosophic Manuscripts \u003c\/i\u003eof 1844, which remained unpublished until 1930. It was during this brief initial stay in France that Marx became associated with Friedrich Engels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor his radical political activities, Marx was expelled from Paris toward the end of 1844. He moved, with Engels, to Brussels, where he was to remain for the next three years, except for occasional short trips to England. Here Marx wrote the manuscript for \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology \u003c\/i\u003eand the polemic \u003ci\u003eThe Poverty of Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003eagainst idealistic socialism. Marx later joined the Communist League, a German workers group, for which he and Engels were to become the primary spokespersons. In 1847 Marx and Engels were asked to write a mani-festo for the league conference in London. This resulted in the creation of the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto, \u003c\/i\u003eone of the most influential popular political documents ever written. Its publication coincided with a wave of revolutions in Europe in 1848. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarx returned to Paris in 1848 but soon after left for Germany, where in Cologne he founded the \u003ci\u003eNeue Rheinische Zeitung, \u003c\/i\u003ea radical newspaper that attacked Prussian rule. As revolutionary fervor waned, the government suppressed his paper and Marx fled to England in 1849. For the next thirty-four years Marx remained in England ab-sorbed in his work. During this period he composed \u003ci\u003eThe Class Struggles in France \u003c\/i\u003e(1848), \u003ci\u003eThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte \u003c\/i\u003e(1948), \u003ci\u003eGrundrisse \u003c\/i\u003e(1858), \u003ci\u003eTheories of Surplus Value \u003c\/i\u003e(1860), \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital \u003c\/i\u003e(Vol. 1, 1867), and \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War in France \u003c\/i\u003e(1871). Karl Marx died in London on March 13, 1883.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.51 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67580561981689,"sku":"9780879759773","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bl-WYdXNv59780879759773.webp?v=1793652755","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-poverty-of-philosophy-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}