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By Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

Since the Nineteen Twenties, students have promoted a suite of manuscripts, lengthy deserted through Marx and Engels, to canonical prestige in ebook shape because the German Ideology, and particularly its 'first chapter,' referred to as 'I. Feuerbach.' half considered one of this innovative research relates intimately the political heritage in which those manuscripts have been editorially fabricated into versions and translations, in order that they might symbolize an enormous exposition of Marx's 'theory of history.' half offers a wholly-original view of the so-called 'Feuerbach' manuscripts in a page-by-page English-language rendition of those discontinuous fragments. through together with the hitherto devalued corrections that every writer made in draft, the recent textual content invitations the reader right into a distinct laboratory for his or her collaborative paintings. An 'Analytical Introduction' indicates how Marx's and Engels's considering built in duologue as they altered person phrases and words on those 'left-over' polemical pages.

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Or rather it is far from obvious that—intellectual biographers notwithstanding— Marx was intent on system or doctrine as such (see especially Berlin, 2013 [1939], Introduction) rather than on the use of ideas to “do” politics. As we have seen demonstrated in Carver and Blank (2014), the temptation to exploit a mysticism of the manuscript and fetishism of the archive has been overwhelming, given the way that scholars have had to capitalize on these “hooks” to get their projects under way. This has had the result that works actually published by Marx and Engels (variously) have been somewhat undervalued, or at least overshadowed, given the popularity of, say, the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” (which were at least advertised as manuscripts) and the—if possible—even more influential and mandatory worship of the “German ideology” as a supposed “book” that— even if a bit rough in places—could still be editorially pieced together and presented as a “last hand” text.

21 Bogen, 35 Seite, L Column, p. , nonideologically) informed self-conscious activity could empower “united individuals” instead: Communism distinguishes itself from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all previous production relations & relations of exchange, & for the first time when with consciousness self-consciously considers all naturally arising preconditions up to now as human creations, strips away power their naturalness & subjects them to the of united p{ower} individuals.

The editors of Jahrbuch 2003 state that this insertion was written down later than the previous one; vol. 2, p. 216, ref. 3–6 l. 14. The editors of Jahrbuch 2003 give the original word order in this phrase as: eats & drinks, {clothes} himself; vol. 2, p. 230, ref. 20 l. 15. Marx’s parentheses around this passage. 31 This page intentionally left blank Br ief Appar atus Cr iticus deletion = excised word or phrase later insertion appears here appears here inserted word or phrase by Marx or Engels = {insertion}/{end insertion} = insertions by Marx or Engels too long to go easily above the line [square brackets] = insertions by the editors of Jahrbuch 2003 {braces} = insertions by present editors roman typeface = Engels’s handwriting bold typeface = Marx’s handwriting underline = emphasis in the manuscript pp = German abbreviation for “and so forth” Punctuation and capitalization are in conformity with English usage, but I have taken the transcription of the German manuscript into account as much as possible.

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