ABSTRACT

This work analyzes Marx’s method of theorizing. It focuses on the Grundrisse, a work considered by many to be the most important of Marx’s texts. The complete text has been available in translation only since 1973, although a volume of excerpts edited by David McLellan was published in 1971. The Grundrisse combines the humanist concerns of Marx’s earlier philosophical work with the technical concerns of political economy that dominate his later work in Capital. Because it appears to be the most comprehensive of his works in certain respects, it provides an opportune place to find how Marx links the different aspects of his concerns.