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| ==Description==
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| The following paragaphs from Robert C Tucker's ''Marx Engels Reader'' describe some of its content:
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| {{Quote|In recent years [''The Grundrisse''] has attracted growing attention because of the intrinsic interest of various parts, because it forms an important link between the early writings and ''Capital,'' and because the very rawness of much of the text enhances its value as a revelation of Marx's creative mental process.<ref>This last point is made compellingly by Martin Nicolaus in his informative Foreword to Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, translated by Martin Nicolaus (New York: Vintage, 1973), p. 7. The same point could be made with reference to the 1844 manuscripts.
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| The great bulk of it consists of an Introduction, a "Chapter on Money," and a "Chapter on Capital"....
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| The Introduction, besides stating Marx's view of the method of political economy, develops his thesis on production as the basic category; shows (in the final paragraph of its third section) that the work on which he was embarked, and which later came to fruition in ''Capital,'' was no more than one part of a more ambitious total project; and concludes with a discussion of the timeless character of great art. Section B defines "society." Section C deals with capitalism as incessant drive for surplus value and alludes to future communism as a society in which labour "appears no longer as labour, but as the full development of activity itself...." Section D suplements ''Capital'' on primitive accumulation. Section E deals with pre-capitalist economies and the birth of capitalism. Section F summarizes Marx's views on population and Malthus. Section G contains a now-famous discussion of ever-increasing automation under capitalism.<ref>Some have interpreted these passages as heralding the end of manual labour under capitalism. Nicolaus (Foreword, p. 52) objects that "neither here nor anywhere else in Marx's work is there a prediction that manual industrial labour will be abolished in industrial society...."
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| Section H envisages capitalism's ultimate violent overthrow. Section I contrasts the alienation of labour under capitalism with the postulated ending of alienation in the future. In these and other passages of the Grundrisse Marx here and there uses the "alienation" terminology which had been pervasive in the 1844 manuscripts but would grow inconspicuous in ''Capital.''|''Marx Engels Reader,'' Chapter 2. [https://genius.com/Robert-c-tucker-the-marx-engels-reader-chapter-ii-annotated Free in text format]}}
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| ==See also==
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| [[Library:Grundrisse]]
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| [[Category:Works by Karl Marx]]
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| [[Category:Political economy]]
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