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
Francis Wheen journalism. Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages. He followed the biography of Karl Marx with a "biography" of "Das Kapital", which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes. Wheen had a column in "The Guardian" for several years. He writes for "Private Eye" and is currently the magazine's deputy editor. His collected journalism, "Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies", won him the Orwell Prize in 2003. He has