The life and teaching of Karl Marx

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Max Beer. The life and teaching of Karl Marx

The life and teaching of Karl Marx

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.ToC

I. The Significance of Marx

II. The Work of Hegel

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx

I.ToC. PARENTS AND FRIENDS

I. Marx's Apprenticeship

II. Student

III. Beginnings of Public Life

II.ToC. THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF MARXISM

I. The Franco-German Year Books

II. Friendship with Friedrich Engels

III. Controversies with Bauer and Ruge

IV. Controversy with Proudhon

III.ToC. YEARS OF AGITATION AND VARYING FORTUNES

I. The Revolutionary Spirit of the Forties

II. The Communist Manifesto

III. The Revolution of 1848

IV. Days of Cloud and Sunshine in London

V. The International

VI. The Paris Commune

VII. The Evening of Life

Footnote

IV.ToC. THE MARXIAN SYSTEM

I. The Materialist Conception of History

II. Classes, Class Struggles, and Class-Consciousness

III. The Role of the Labour Movement and the Proletarian Dictatorship

IV. Outlines of the Economic Doctrines

Footnote

CONCLUSION.ToC

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Max Beer

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To revert to our examples: the complete cooling and condensation of the earth's crust: the rise of the middle-class State: the victory of the Proletariat: these things represent the suspension or the setting aside of the Negation; the contradiction is thus resolved, and a new stage in the process of evolution is reached. The expressions Positive (or affirmation), Negation, and Negation of the Negation, are also known as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

In order to understand this more distinctly, and to visualise it, let us consider an egg. It is something positive, but it contains a germ, which, awakening to life, gradually consumes (i.e., negatives) the contents of the egg. This negation is, however, no mere destruction and annihilation; on the contrary, it results in the germ developing into a living thing. The negation being complete, the chick breaks through the egg shell. This represents the negation of the negation, whereby there has arisen something organically higher than an egg.

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