Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Political thought after the French Revolution
- II Modern liberty and its defenders
- III Modern liberty and its critics
- 15 Aesthetics and politics
- 16 Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914
- 17 The Young Hegelians, Marx and Engels
- IV Secularity, reform and modernity
- Biographies
- Bibliography
- Index
17 - The Young Hegelians, Marx and Engels
from III - Modern liberty and its critics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Political thought after the French Revolution
- II Modern liberty and its defenders
- III Modern liberty and its critics
- 15 Aesthetics and politics
- 16 Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914
- 17 The Young Hegelians, Marx and Engels
- IV Secularity, reform and modernity
- Biographies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
From Hegel to Hegelianism
In The Communist Manifesto completed just before the outbreak of the 1848 revolutions, its joint authors, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, depicted communism as a theory which explained how the development of industrial capitalism would lead to a proletarian revolution. In that revolution, private property in the means of production would be abolished, the political state would be superseded, and humanity would enter into a higher state of freedom. Twentieth-century commentators, following the Manifesto's characterisation of modern communism, attempted to relate its genesis to the industrial revolution and the emergence of the working class.
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