[lbo-talk] Question on a Work by Marx

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 20 21:07:05 PDT 2005


--- Paul <paul_ at igc.org> wrote:
> I think you are thinking of The German Ideology.
>

I dont think so Paul. I am reading Safranski's biography of Nietzche, and he claims that Marx wrote an entire book (that was never published) in response to Stirner's "The Ego and His Own", but it was unpublished. Safranski does not mention a title, but I imagine he would have if he intended something as well known as "The German Ideology". I guess he did not refer to it by name because the work may have no name...but I thought someone here might know differently.

-Thomas
> Stirner was one of the most promenent of the Young
> Hegalians. Coming
> towards the end of that movement, Stirner takes the
> movement to its logical
> extreme in "The Ego and His Own". It is an
> anarcho-existentialist
> position: all movements, including socialism,
> religion etc are oppressive
> and you should free yourself through indulgence and
> egoism. Some people
> feel Stirner influenced early Sartre. Others see a
> link to Foucault,
> Derrida and Deleuze.
>
> The German Ideology was written by Marx & Engels in
> their early Brussels
> days (none of it was published until the '30s)
> criticizing a number of the
> Young Hegalians. The better written part attacks
> Feuerbach (especially the
> tacked on 'Theses on Feuerbach'); the part on
> Stirner is pretty turgid and
> is even left out of the "International Publishers"
> editions. Can't say I
> could recommend it.
>
> Paul
>
> Thomas S. writes:
> >Johann Caspar Schmidt (whose nom de plume was Max
> >Stirner) published a work "The Ego and His Own"
> which
> >sent shockwaves throughout Europe in 1844. Marx
> wrote
> >a huge book in response to Schmidt that was not
> >published in his lifetime. Does anyone know if
> this
> >is included in his collected works and, if so, what
> >title does it go under?
>
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