Pre-capitalist Economic Formations

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International Publishers, 1964 - Business & Economics - 153 pages
These 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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Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena. He was an editor of socialist periodicals and a key figure in the Working Man's Association. Marx co-wrote his best-known work, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), with his friend, Friedrich Engels. Marx's most important work, however, may be "Das Kapital" (1867), an analysis of the economics of capitalism. He died on March 14, 1883 in London, England.

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