Influences on Karl Marx end to the French Second Republic and created the Second Empire which would last until the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Marx thereby modified his theory of alienation exposed in the "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" and would latter arrive to his theory of commodity fetishism, exposed in the first chapter of the first book of "Das Kapital" (1867). This abandonment of the early theory of alienation would be amply discussed, several Marxist theorists, including Marxist humanists such as the Praxis School, would return to it. Others such as Althusser would claim that the epistemological break between the young Marx and
Karl Marx Library with Marx's alleged transgressions with the censorship as editor of the two Rhenish newspapers with which he was associated. Padover's fifth topical volume of the Karl Marx Library, "On Religion," drew significant academic attention beyond the more typical scholarly province of intellectual history and the history of the labor movement. Writing in the "Catholic Historical Review," Joseph O'Malley of Marquette University observed that "Marx's idea of religion, as shown in these excerpts, remained one and fixed throughout his adult life," and that religion to Marx "at best provides some individuals the diversion of an illusory solace and at worst acts