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The German Idelology by Karl Marx , translated by Maurice Cornforth, E. J. Hobsbawm and Margaret Mynatt for Lawrence & Wishart, and Salo Ryazanskaya

Works of Marx and Engels 1845

The German Ideology Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to Its Various Prophets[7]

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Written: Fall 1845 to mid-1846; First Published: 1932 (in full); Preface: from Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 5.

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Volume I Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner[8]

Preface

I. Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks

A. Idealism and Materialism

The Illusions of German Ideology

First Premises of the Materialist Method

History: Fundamental Conditions

Private Property and Communism

B. The Illusion of the Epoch

Civil Society — and the Conception of History

Feuerbach: Philosophic, and Real, Liberation

Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas

C. The Real Basis of Ideology

Division of Labor: Town and Country

The Rise of Manufacturing

The Relation of State and Law to Property

D. Proletarians and Communism

Individuals, Class, and Community

Forms of Intercourse

Conquest

Contradictions of Big Industry: Revolution

II. The Leipzig Council: Saint Bruno

III. The Leipzig Council: Saint Max [45]

(Abstract of Chapter III)

Volume II Critique of German Socialism According to Its Various Prophets True Socialism True Socialism

I. Die Rheinischen Jahrbucher or the Philosophy of True Socialism

A. "Communismus, Socialismus, Humanismus" B. "Socialistische Bausteine"

First Cornerstone Second Cornerstone Third Cornerstone

IV. Karl Grün: Die Soziale Bewegung in Frankreich und Belgien (Darmstadt, 1845) or the Historiography of True Socialism

Saint-Simonism

1. Lettres d'un habitant de Geneve a ses Contemporains 2. Catechisme politique des Industriels 3. Nouveau christianisme 4. The School of Saint-Simon

Fourierism The "Limitations of Papa Cabet" and Herr Grün Proudhon

V. "Doctor Georg Kuhlmann of Holstein" or the Prophecies of True Socialism

‘Highlights’ of The German Ideology

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