German Ideology

Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939, "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1846 but published only later. The original edition was divided into three parts.

This abridged edition contains the first and third parts; the second part is not included so as to produce a smaller and inexpensive book that gives the gist of the content of the original.

Part I, the most significant, is perhaps the classic statement of the Marxist concept of historical materialism. Since its publication, Marxist scholars have found this part of "The German Ideology" particularly valuable.

Part III is a critique of "true socialism," a German idealist school of socialist thought. Here Marx refutes the approach of this school, concentrating on Karl Gruen's own criticism of the ideas of French socialism.

This edition includes a preface to the abridged edition, an appendix that contains the "Theses on Feuerbach" in its original form, and an index of the authors cited in this work.

This book is a 2011 facsimile reprint of 1939 edition.

Publicat initial de Institutul Marx-Engels din Moscova in 1939, „Ideologia germana” a fost scrisa de Karl Marx si Friedrich Engels in 1846, dar publicata abia mai tarziu. Editia originala a fost impartita in trei parti.