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
Grundrisse Grundrisse The Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie ("Fundamentals of Political Economy Criticism") is a lengthy, unfinished manuscript by the German philosopher Karl Marx. The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. Left aside by Marx in 1858, it remained unpublished until 1939. The "Grundrisse" is very wide-ranging in subject matter and covers all six sections of Marx's economics (of which only one, the first volume of "Das Kapital", ever reached a final form). It is often described as the rough draft of "Das Kapital", although there is considerable