Young Marx on Feuerbach" (1845). Furthermore, other important shifts in Marx's thought have been highlighted (e.g. Étienne Balibar), in particular following the failure of the 1848 revolutions, in particular in France with Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's December 2, 1851 coup d'état and then after the crush of the 1871 Paris Commune. This would lead him to substitute in the first chapter of "Das Kapital" (1867) his theory of commodity fetishism for the theory of alienation expounded in the "1844 Manuscripts". Young Marx Some theorists consider Karl Marx's thought to be divided into a "young" period and a "mature" one. There is disagreement to when
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx is a 1968 book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the political scientist Shlomo Avineri. Commentators have praised the book, which has become a classic. Avineri discusses the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, writing that he aims to do so without political bias and to take account of the rediscovery of early works by Marx, such as the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right", "The German Ideology", the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844", and the "Grundrisse". He argues that previous discussions of