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 Communist Manifesto but such a document was later deemed inappropriate for an open, non-confrontational organisation. Engels nevertheless wrote the "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", detailing the League's programme. A few months later, in October, Engels arrived at the League's Paris branch to find that Moses Hess had written an inadequate manifesto for the group, now called the League of Communists. In Hess's absence, Engels severely criticised this manifesto, and convinced the rest of the League to entrust him with drafting a new one. This became the draft "Principles of Communism", described as "less of a credo and more of an