Grundrisse
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The Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (Foundations of a Critique of Political Economy)[1] is an unfinished manuscript by the German philosopher Karl Marx. The series of seven notebooks was rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857–8. Left aside by Marx in 1858, it remained unpublished until 1939.[2]
Contents
The Grundrisse is very wide-ranging in subject matter and covers all six sections of Marx's
Due to its breadth and its incorporation of themes from Marx's earlier writings, the Grundrisse is central to Marx's body of work. Its subject matter includes the
As Martin Nicolaus and others have argued, the Grundrisse is crucial for understanding Marx's mature analysis of capitalism, even though, historically, it has been far less influential in the development of the various strands of
French philosopher Louis Althusser believed that Marx's thought had been misunderstood and underestimated. He condemned various interpretations of Marx—such as historicism, idealism, and economism—on the grounds that they fail to realise that Marx's "science of history", historical materialism, represents a revolutionary view of social change. Althusser believed these errors to result from the notion (mistaken in his view) that Marx's entire body of work forms a coherent whole. Althusser proffered a radical "epistemological break" in Marx's thought, which can be seen by comparing the unpublished Grundrisse and Das Kapital.[7]
Dissemination
Grundrisse became available in different languages over a period of time.[8]
- 1939–41 First German edition Marx–Engels Institute, Moscow
- 1953 Second German edition GDR
- 1958–65 Japanese translation
- 1962–78 Chinese translation
- 1967–68 French translation Roger Dangeville (International Communist Party)
- 1968–69 Russian translation
- 1968–70 Italian translation
- 1970–71 Spanish translation
- 1971 Swedish translation
- 1971–77 Czech translation
- 1972 Hungarian translation
- 1972–74 Romanian translation
- 1973 English translation
- 1974–75 Slovak translation
- 1974–78 Danish translation
- 1974 Serbian/Serbo-Croatian translation
- 1979 Turkish translation
- 1985 Slovenian translation
- 1985–87 Persian translation
- 1986 Polish translation
- 1986 Finnish translation
- 1989–92 Greek translation
- 2000 Korean translation
- 2008 Portuguese translation.
The Grundrisse's influence
The translation of the Grundrisse into English in 1973 had a profound effect on the then-emerging field of cultural studies.[9] Stuart Hall, at that time the director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, led several seminars on Marx's introduction to the Grundrisse, particularly "The method of political economy." These seminars culminated in the publication of a working paper titled “Marx’s Notes on Method: A ‘Reading’ of the ‘1857 Introduction.’”[10] According to Greg Wise, in that working paper, Hall lays the groundwork for theories of overdetermination and articulation, both of which would be used in a study of mugging in the United Kingdom, Policing the Crisis.[9]
Footnotes
- ^ "Karl Marx: Grundrisse".
- ^ "Marx was a Fully Automated Luxury Communist".
- ^ Harvey, David (2023). A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. London: Verso. p. 9.
- ^ McLellan, David (1973). Marx's Grundrisse (Second ed.). Suffolk: Granada Publishing. pp. 14–26.
- ^ Wood, Ellen Meiksins (2002) The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View London: Verso p.35
- ^ Nicolaus, Martin. "The Unknown Marx," New Left Review I/48, March–April 1968
- ^ Althusser, Louis; Balibar, Etienne (2009). Reading Capital. London and New York: Verso.
- ^ Musto, Marcello. "Karl Marx's Grundrisse" (PDF). Routledge.
- ^ S2CID 144246527.
- S2CID 144199861.
Further reading
- Bottomore, Tom, ed. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
- Choat, Simon. Marx's 'Grundrisse': A reader's guide. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. 240p. (Reader's Guides) ISBN 9781472526748
- Elliott, John E., Marx's Grundrisse: Vision of capitalism's creative destruction. Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics. Winter 1978-79, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 148-169.
- Harvey, David. The Limits of Capital. London: Verso, 2006.
- Lallier, Adalbert G. The Economics of Marx’s Grundrisse: an Annotated Summary. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
- Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital. London: Verso, 2015.
- Mandel, Ernest. Marxist Economic Theory. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970.
- Negri, Antonio. Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1989.
- Postone, Moishe. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Roman Rosdolsky. The Making of Marx's Capital. London: Pluto Press, 1977.
- Tronti, Mario. Workers and Capital. London: Verso, 2019.
- Uchida, Hiroshi. Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic. Terrell Carber, ed. London: Routledge, 2015.
See also
- Time-space compression
- Unto This Last
External links
- Complete text (English html format), Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists.org/
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