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The Early Life of Marx's “Mode of Production”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2019

Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson*
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Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
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Abstract

This article reexamines Marx's early conception of history by returning to his 1845–6 manuscripts, long known as The German Ideology. On conventional interpretations of these manuscripts, Marx sought to explain the entire historical process through a theory of the systematic development of productive forces. This article reveals that concern to be an artifact of subsequent editorial practices and argues that a different concern animated the manuscripts for Marx himself—namely to grasp the nature of individual epochs, particularly the present one, which he doubted that a generalized theory of history could help him to do. In “Saint Max,” perhaps the most neglected of these early manuscripts, Marx developed the concept of a “mode of production” into a historical lens, one that could aid the work of social critique by bringing into focus how the present is made and might be made anew.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 349 - 378
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18 See Rjazanov, “Einführung,” 219–20.

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28 Pagel, Hubmann, and Weckwerth, Apparat, 976, 985.

29 Ibid., 848.

30 Marx and Engels, “I. Feuerbach,” 303 n.

31 Pagel, Hubmann, and Weckwerth, Apparat, 848.

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35 Marx and Engels, Deutsche Ideologie, 10. See also Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “I. Feuerbach. [2. Kapitelanfang],” in MEGA 2, I/5: 8–11, at 8 (MECW, 5: 31).

36 Marx and Engels, Deutsche Ideologie, 10–11; Marx and Engels, “[2. Kapitelanfang],” 8–11 (MECW, 5: 31–2).

37 Marx and Engels, Deutsche Ideologie, 11; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “3) [Fragment],” in MEGA 2, I/5: 129–34, at 129 (MECW, 5: 32, punctuation modified).

38 See Marx and Engels, Deutsche Ideologie, 39–51; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “[Ms-S. 40–[73]. Frühe Fassung von III. Sankt Max. Abhandlung 2 sowie Fragmente und Notizen],” in MEGA 2, I/5: 69–123, at 71–89 (MECW, 5: 64–74).

39 Adoratskij, “Einleitung,” x.

40 On this discovery see Carver and Blank, Political History, 63–7. Editions in which fragment “3)” is sutured to the discussion of premises include Marx and Engels, Werke, vol. 3, 21; Tucker, Marx–Engels Reader, 150; McLellan, Selected Writings, 161.

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42 See Churbanov, “Preface,” xix.

43 Quoted in ibid., xviii. See also Marx and Engels, “[Ms-S. 40–[73]],” 90.

44 Churbanov, “Preface,” xviii.

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66 Karl Marx, “Announcement,” in MECW, 1: 376.

67 See G. Mevissen, “Minutes of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Rheinische Zeitung, February 12, 1843,” in MECW, 1: 712–24.

68 Karl Marx, “Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher,” in MECW, 3: 133–45, at 142. See also Marx to Arnold Ruge, 25 Jan. 1843, in MECW, 1: 396–8; Marx to Arnold Ruge, 13 March 1843, in MECW, 1: 398–400, at 398–9; Marx to Ludwig Feuerbach, 3 Oct. 1843, in MECW, 3: 349–51.

69 Marx, “Letters,” 142. This is also the source of the discussion that follows.

70 Marx, “Letters,” 144–5 (translation modified); M. an R., Kreuznach, im September 1843, in MEGA 2, Section I, vol. 2 (Berlin, 1982), 486–9, at 489.

71 Marx, “Letters,” 143–4.

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74 Ibid., 162–4, 167.

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76 Ibid., 187.

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82 Ibid., 432.

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85 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 274.

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87 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 275–7.

88 Ibid., 281.

89 Ibid., 276.

90 Ibid., 285 (translation modified); Marx, “Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte,” 249–50.

91 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 296.

92 Ibid., 297.

93 Ibid., 308 (translation modified); Marx, “Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte,” 280.

94 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 308.

95 Marx and Engels, “[2. Kapitelanfang],” 11 (MECW, 5: 31).

96 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 300.

97 Ibid., 297, 303.

98 Ibid., 306.

99 Ibid., 302, 297–8. See also Karl Marx, “Comments on James Mill, Élémens d’économie politique,” in MECW, 3: 211–28, at 227–8.

100 Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 327, 332.

101 Marx to Ludwig Feuerbach, 11 Aug. 1844, in MECW, 3: 354–7, at 356; Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 332.

102 Marx to Feuerbach, 11 Aug. 1844, 356; Marx, “1844 Manuscripts,” 327–8.

103 Frederick Engels, Letter in The New Moral World 46, 10 May 1845, in MECW, 4: 237–42, at 240.

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105 Marx and Engels, The Holy Family, 150.

106 Ibid.

107 Engels to Marx, 17 March 1845, in MECW, 38: 26–30, at 28. Engels was referring to Bruno Bauer and his brother Edgar, whose work was also criticized in The Holy Family. A third Bauer brother, Egbert, published the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung.

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110 Marx to Carl Friedrich Julius Leske, 1 Aug. 1846, in MECW, 38: 48–52, at 50.

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114 Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity, 13.

115 Ibid., viii–x, 13, 281.

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118 Ibid., 279–80, 222–3.

119 Ibid., 282.

120 Marx, “Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law: Introduction,” 182.

121 Ibid., 175–6.

122 Ibid., 176.

123 Marx, “On the Jewish Question,” 168.

124 Stirner, The Ego, 158 (translation modified).

125 Engels to Marx, 19 Nov. 1844, 11; Marx to Heinrich Börnstein, end of Dec. 1844–beginning of Jan. 1845, in MECW, 38: 14.

126 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “Das Leipziger Konzil,” in MEGA 2, I/5: 140–43, at 140 (MECW, 5: 94).

127 Bauer, “Charakteristik Ludwig Feuerbachs,” 139, translated in MECW, 5: 109.

128 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “II. Sankt Bruno,” in MEGA 2, I/5: 144–64, at 147–8, 157–8 (MECW, 5: 98–9, 109–10).

129 Stirner, The Ego, 13–18.

130 Ibid., 62–4.

131 Ibid., 76–8, 88.

132 Ibid., 62–3, 139, 155–7.

133 Marx and Engels, “Sankt Max,” 187 (MECW, 5: 136).

134 Ibid., 292 (MECW, 5: 237, translation modified).

135 Ibid., 491 (MECW, 5: 433).

136 Ibid., 291(MECW, 5: 236).

137 Ibid.

138 Ibid., 381 (MECW, 5: 327).

139 Ibid., 194–5 (MECW, 5: 144).

140 Ibid., 197 (MECW, 5: 146).

141 Ibid., 227–30 (MECW, 5: 173–6).

142 Ibid., 223 (MECW, 5: 170).

143 Ibid., 229 (MECW, 5: 176)

144 Ibid.

145 Ibid., 231 (MECW, 5: 177–8).

146 Marx and Engels, “5. [Fragment],” 136 (MECW, 5: 37).

147 Marx and Engels, “Sankt Max,” 495–6 (MECW, 5: 437–8).

148 Ibid., 413 (MECW, 5: 356, translation modified).

149 Ibid., 410 (MECW, 5: 355).

150 Stirner, The Ego, 223.

151 Marx and Engels, “Sankt Max,” 418–19 (MECW, 5: 361–2).

152 Stirner, The Ego, 88, 220, 229.

153 Marx and Engels, “Sankt Max,” 425 (MECW, 5: 367, translation modified).

154 Ibid. (translation modified).

155 Marx and Engels, “[2. Kapitelanfang],” 11 (MECW, 5: 31).

156 Ibid. (MECW, 5: 32).

157 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “IV. Karl Grün: Die soziale Bewegung in Frankreich u. Belgien (Darmstadt 1845) oder: die Geschichtsschreibung des wahren Sozialismus,” in MEGA 2, I/5: 545–89, at 574 (MECW, 5: 516).

158 Ibid.

159 Karl Marx, “Marginal Notes on Adolph Wagner's Lehrbuch der politischen Oekonomie,” in MECW, 24: 531–59, at 547.

160 Karl Marx, “Introduction,” in MECW, 28: 17–48, at 23, 44.

161 Ibid., 43–4.

162 Marx to Engels, 8 Dec. 1857, in MECW, 40: 214–17, at 217 (translation modified); Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, 8. Dec. 1857, in MEGA 2, Section III, vol. 8 (Berlin, 1990), 208–210, at 210. See also Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle, 21 Dec. 1857, in MECW, 40: 225–7, at 226. Marx began this work in October 1857.

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