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The German Ideology (1845) was a book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels around April or early May 1845. Marx and Engels decided not to publish it. However, the work was later retrieved and published for the first time in 1932 by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. "Communism, wrote Marx, is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality * have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence." Thus, in this text, Marx didn't consider communism to be a future state of society, or an End of History, but to be the negativity at work in present reality.
The multi-part book consists of many satirically written polemics against Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own (1844), and other Young Hegelians. Part I, however, is a work of exposition giving the appearance of being the work for which the "Theses on Feuerbach" served as an outline. The work is a restatement of the theory of history Marx was beginning to call the "materialist conception of history."
Since its first publication, Marxist scholars have found the work particularly valuable since it is perhaps the most comprehensive statement of Marx's theory of history stated at such length and detail.
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1932 books | Books by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | Marxism | Philosophy books
"The German Ideology"