The three essays here presented have been selected and translated from the economic-philosophical manuscripts written by Marx in 1844 and collected in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 1, Abt. 3 ...

Postone claims that “the definitions [Marx] provides of abstract human labor in Capital, Chapter One, are very problematic. They seem to indicate that it is a biological residue, that it is to be ...

“One basis for life and another basis for science is an a-priori lie” — Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1845. Base-superstructure theory is Marx’s most general theory, but is long ...

It seems to me this assumption of the fungibility of human labor, its ability to adapt to the particular division of labor in any epoch and generationally over time to the changing demands of the ...