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Karl Korsch’s Karl Marx was originally written in English and published in London in 1938. The book was reissued in 1963, but has been out of print for decades. Ken Knabb corrected obvious typographical errors and occasionally added or deleted a comma where this seemed necessary for clarity, but otherwise left the British spelling and Korsch’s sometimes slightly awkward English style and terminology as in the original edition. In the interest of online readability he omitted the hundreds of footnotes. A few of them include substantive remarks, but the great majority are merely page references to original German editions that would be of no interest to most readers.
Introduction
Karl M... (From: Marxists.org.)
1. Marxism and Sociology 2. The Principle of Historical Specification 3. The Principle of Historical Specification (continued) 4. The Principle of Change 5. The Principle of Criticism 6. A New Type of Generalization 7. Practical Implications
Chapter 1. Marxism and Sociology
What is the relationship between Marxism and modern sociological
teaching? If we think of the Sociology begun by Comte and in fact first
named by him, we shall not find any affinity or link between it and
Marxism. Marx and Engels, with all their keen desire to extend and enhance
the knowledge of society, paid no attention to either the name or contents
of that ostensibly new approach to the social studies. Nor were they
impressed by the gains the Com... (From: Marxists.org.)
1. Marxism and Political Economy 2. From Political Economy to “Economics” 3. From Political Economy to Marxian Critique of Political Economy 4. Scientific versus Philosophical Criticism of Political Economy 5. Two Aspects of Revolutionary Materialism in Marx’s Economic Theory 6. Economic Theory of Capital 7. The Fetishism of Commodities 8. The “Social Contract” 9. The Law of Value 10. Common Misunderstandings of the Marxian Doctrine of Value and Surplus Value 11. Ultimate Aims of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
Chapter 1. Marxism and Political Economy
Marx’s materialistic investigation of bourgeois society is based
from the very beginning on a recognition of the cardinal importance o... (From: Marxists.org.)
1. The Materialistic Conception of History 2. The Genesis of Historical Materialism 3. The Materialistic Scheme of Society 4. Nature and Society 5. Productive Forces and Production-Relations 6. Basis and Superstructure 7. Conclusions
Chapter 1. The Materialistic Conception of History
Marx and Engels never considered their new principle of economic
and social research as more than a new scientific approach to a strictly
empirical investigation of the historical development of the modern
capitalistic mode of production. Marx referred to it in 1859 as a “general
result” at which he had arrived during the first period of his economic
research and which, once gained, served as a &ldq... (From: Marxists.org.)
