Pre-capitalist Economic FormationsThese notes of 1857-58 throw light on Marx's views concerning the epochs of society and their evolutionary stages. Important for understanding the approach of historical materialism, and as background for further development of the Marxist study of history. |
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INTRODUCTION by E J Hobsbawm | 12 |
Karl Marx | 67 |
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS OF MARX AND ENGELS | 121 |
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accumulation ager publicus agriculture already analysis ancient Anti-Dühring appears arise basis belongs bourgeois capital capitalist century citizens classical antiquity commerce communal property conditions of labour conditions of production conquest countryside discussion dissolution division of labour economic Engels to Marx epochs evolution exchange exchange-values existence feudal form of property Formen free labour Germanic gilds Hence historic process independent individual industry inorganic instrument labour power landed property living labour manufacture Marx and Engels Marx's Marxist Maurer means of subsistence medieval merely MICHIGAN Middle Ages mode of production monetary wealth natural capital natural conditions objective conditions organisation oriental original owner ownership peasants precondition prerequisite presupposed primitive communal private property proprietor relations of production relationship reproduction Roman separation serfdom serfs slavery slaves social society soil surplus labour tion town and country trade transformation tribal tribe unity urban craft Vera Zasulich village wage-labour Werke worker