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
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx Marx have suffered from lack of awareness of these works. In addition, he discusses "Das Kapital" and explores the influence of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ludwig Feuerbach on Marx. "The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx" was published by Cambridge University Press in 1968. "The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx" received positive reviews from Gianfranco Poggi in the "British Journal of Sociology" and Herminio Martins in "The Sociological Review". The book was also reviewed by George L. Donaldson in the "International Review of Modern Sociology". Poggi described the book as a convincing attempt to