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Like the extant part of the second manuscript, the third manuscript has no author’s headings the text has been arranged and supplied with the headings by the editors. The third manuscript contains 41 pages (not counting blank ones) divided into two columns and numbered by Marx himself from I to XLIII (in doing so he omitted two numbers, XXII and XXV). Of the second manuscript only the last four pages have survived (pp. The text of these pages is published as a separate section entitled by the editors according to its content “Estranged Labour.” From page XXII to page XXVII, on which the first manuscript breaks off, Marx wrote across the three columns disregarding the headings. On pages XVII to XXI, only the column headed “Rent of Land” is filled in. VII contain the text relating to the section “Wages of Labour.” Pages XIII to XVI are divided into two columns and contain texts of the sections “Wages of Labour” (pp. The first manuscript contains 27 pages, of which pages I-XII and XVII-XXVII are divided by two vertical lines into three columns supplied with headings written in beforehand: “Wages of Labour,” “Profit of Capital” (this section has also subheadings supplied by the author) and “Rent of Land.” It is difficult to tell the order in which Marx filled these columns. What remains comprises three manuscripts, each of which has its own pagination (in Roman figures). A considerable part of the text has not been preserved. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts is an unfinished work and in part a rough draft. Thus, the manuscripts of 1844 are connected with the conception of a plan which led many years later to the writing of Capital. However, in the early 1850s Marx returned to the idea of writing a book on economics. This plan did not materialise in the 1840s because Marx was busy writing other works and, to some extent, because the contract with the publisher was cancelled in September 1846, the latter being afraid to have transactions with such a revolutionary-minded author. It was to be based on his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and perhaps also on his earlier manuscript Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law. Towards the end of his stay in Paris, on February 1, 1845, Marx signed a contract with Carl Leske, a Darmstadt publisher, concerning the publication of his work entitled A Critique of Politics and of Political Economy. But in the process of working on it he conceived the idea of publishing a work analysing the economic system of bourgeois society in his time and its ideological trends. Apparently, Marx began to write it in order to clarify the problems for himself. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 is the first work in which Marx tried to systematically elaborate problems of political economy from the standpoint of his maturing dialectical-materialist and communist views and also to synthesise the results of his critical review of prevailing philosophic and economic theories. Marx’s Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Footnotesġ. Footnotes for Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
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