Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International

279 Pages·2018·3.68 MB·English

by  Marcello Musto

Another Marx
Also available from Bloomsbury
Aesthetic Marx, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle
Capitalism: The Reemergence of a Historical Concept, edited by
Jürgen Kocka and Marcel van der Linden
Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later, edited by
Marcello Musto

To George and Ann,
for their warm hospitality,
unconditional help, boundless support,
and – most of all – infinite patience.
Contents
List of Figures
Notice
Introduction
1. The Marx revival
2. New research paths
3. Chronology of Marx’s writings
Part 1 Intellectual Influences and Early Writings
1 Childhood, Youth and University Studies
1. The rabbi manqué
2. At school in Trier and studiosus juris in Bonn
3. Into the arms of the enemy
4. A young Hegelian in Berlin
2 The Encounter with Political Economy
1. Paris: Capital of the nineteenth century
2. Classics of political economy and alienated labour
3. Manuscripts and notebooks of excerpts: The papers of 1844
4. From critical philosophy to revolutionary praxis
Part 2 The Critique of Political Economy
3 Waiting for the Economic Crisis
1. Continuing the study of economics
2. In the solitude of exile
3. Research notes of 1850–1853
4. The trial of the communists and personal hardships
5. Articles on the crisis for the New-York Tribune
4 At the Time of the Grundrisse
1. The financial crisis of 1857 and the date with the revolution
2. History and the social individual
3. Poverty in London
4. In search of a method
5. Writing the Grundrisse
6. Struggling against bourgeois society
5 The Polemic against Carl Vogt
1. Herr Vogt
2. Fighting misery and disease
3. In the meantime ‘Economics’ waits
4. Journalism and international politics
6 Capital: The Unfinished Critique
1. Critical analysis of theories of surplus-value
2. The writing of the three volumes
3. The completion of Volume I
4. In search of the definitive version
Part 3 Political Militancy
7 The Birth of the International Working Men’s Association
1. The right man in the right place
2. Organizational development and growth
3. The defeat of the mutualists
8 The Revolution in Paris
1. The struggle for liberation in Ireland
2. Opposition to the Franco-Prussian War
3. The Paris Commune takes power
4. The political turn of the London conference
9 The Conflict with Bakunin
1. The crisis of the International
2. Marx versus Bakunin
3. Two opposing conceptions of revolution
4. Socialism in Russia?
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Karl Marx in London, April 1861. Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images.
Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny in Margate, March 1866. Photo by Universal
History Archive/UIG via Getty Images.
Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny in London, 1869. World History
Archive/Alamy Stock Photo.
Notice
Some of the chapters included in this volume are based, in whole or in part, on
articles published in scholarly journals and chapters in books. However, they
were initially conceived as components of a larger work.
Chapter 2 is a thoroughly revised and extended version of ‘Marx in Paris:
Manuscripts and Notebooks of 1844’, Science & Society, vol. 73 (2009), n. 3,
pp. 386–402.
Chapter 3 is a revised version of ‘The Formation of Marx’s Critique of
Political Economy: From the Studies of 1843 to the Grundrisse’, Socialism and
Democracy, vol. 24 (2010), n. 2, pp. 66–100.
Chapter 4 is a revised and extended version of ‘Marx’s life at the time of the
Grundrisse. Biographical Notes on 1857–8’, in Marcello Musto (ed.), Karl
Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years
Later, Routledge, 2008, pp. 147–61.
Chapter 6 is an extended version of ‘The Writing of Capital: Genesis and
Structure of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy’, Critique, vol. 46 (2018), no.
1, pp. 11–26.
Finally, chapters 7, 8 and 9 are based on the ‘Introduction’ to the anthology
Marcello Musto (ed.), Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later,
Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 1–68.
The permission to partially reappear in this book is gratefully acknowledged.

Marx’s writings have been generally quoted from the 50-volume Marx Engels
Collected Works (MECW), Moscow/London/New York: Progress
Publishers/Lawrence and Wishart/International Publishers, 1975–2005.
Sometimes the translations have been modified to conform more closely to the
original German. Citations from the Grundrisse have been taken from the 1973
Penguin edition translated by Martin Nicolaus, while Marx’s addresses,
resolutions and speeches from the period of the International Working Men’s
Association have been quoted from Marcello Musto (ed.), Workers Unite! The
International 150 Years Later, Bloomsbury, 2014. Moreover, in a few cases the
reader is referred to single works translated into English but not included in
MECW.

Texts that have not yet been translated into English are referenced to the Marx-
Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2), Berlin: Dietz/Akademie/De Gruyter, 1975–
…, of which 65 of the originally planned 114 volumes have so far appeared in
print.
As regards the secondary literature, quotations from books and articles not
published in English have been translated for the present volume.
All the names of journals and newspapers have been indicated first in the
original language, followed by an English translation in square brackets.
Indications of birth and death dates of authors and historical figures have
been provided the first time they are mentioned in the book.

I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to Patrick Camiller, who,
during the past ten years that we have been working together, has always
translated my works with the highest competence, comradely commitment and
enormous patience for my many requests. Every author dreams to collaborate
with a competent translator; only few, though, have the luck of having one who
knows more than they do. Thanks to Patrick, and to his vast knowledge of
politics, philosophy and history, I belong to the lucky circle of the latter.
The author would like to thank the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional
Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, for the financial support it provided
to this work.