MARX'S GRUNDRISSE Also by David McLeUan

THE YOUNG HEGELIANS AND MARX BEFORE KARL MARX: THE EARLY TEXTS THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX: AN INTRODUCTION ENGELS MARX KARL MARX: HIS LIFE AND THOUGHT KARL MARX: SELECTED WRITINGS MARXISM AFTER MARX MARX'S GRUND RISSE

Selected and edited by DAVID McLELLAN UnitJilf'Bity of Kmt at Oantllf''bury

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Marx, Karl Marx's 'Grundrisse' - 2nd ed. 1. I. McLellan, David 335.4'12 HB97.5 ISBN 978-1-349-05223-3 ISBN 978-1-349-05221-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05221-9

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ix PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Xi INTRODUCTION 1

I. General Introduction 16 2. Critique of Bastiat and Carey 47 3. Money as a Symbol of Alienation in Capitalist Society 59 4. Social Power and the Individual 65 5. Alienation, Social Relationships and Free Individuality 70 6. General and Specific Labour 7 4 7. Individuals and Society 77 8. Wage-Labour, and Landed Property 78 9. Capital and Labour as Productive and Unproductive 81 10. Capital as a Productive Force 88 11. The of Capital 90 12. The Contributions of Labour and Capital to the Pro- duction Process 92 13. Capital as a Revolutionary, but Limited, Force 99 14. The Preconditions of Revolution 101 15. Alienated Labour and Capital 103 16. Property as the Right to Alien Labour 110 17. Exchange Relationships in Feudal and Capitalist Society 113 18. as the Full Development of Human Potentiality 126 19. The Universalist Tendencies Inherent in 128 20. Labour as Sacrifice or Self-realisation 132 21. Individual Freedom in Capitalist Society 137 22. The Labour Process and Alienation in Machinery and Science 141 23. The Position of Labour in Capitalist and 150 24. Free Time and the Production Process in Capitalist and Communist Society 153 viii Contents 25. Leisure and Free Time in Communist Society 157 26. Productive Power in Capitalist and Communist Societv 159 27. Surplus and the Abolition of Capitalism 162

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 165 INDEX 167 Preface to the First Edition

IT is indicative of the deficiencies of much current discussion about Marx that the Grundrisse, which - as I argue here in my Introduction - is the centrepiece of his work, should yet be the last of his major writings to be translated into English. The present edition is by no means a full-scale scholarly one and has the modest aim of making available the most important passages of this vital text with enough commentary to make them intelli­ gible in the context of Marx's thought as a whole. Since this is the first translation and the text is in places very difficult, I have tried to follow the original as closely as possible for fear of over­ interpretation. At the same time, I have tried to make the text readable: I have added paragraphs and cut down Marx's italicis­ ing drastically. The titles of the sections are my own and I have added a small introductory comment to each to give the reader an idea of Marx's general line of argument. I am grateful to Bri~n Barefoot for working on the first draft of the translations; also to my colleagues Christine Marsh and Derek Allcorn for their valuable advice. D.M. LiUlecroft, Chilham, Kent June 1970 Preface to the Second Edition

I HAVE added a further five passages, enlarged the bibliography, and expanded on some of my remarks in the Introduction. I am grateful to all those who offered me their comments on the first edition. D.M. Ivy Lane, Canterbury, Kent June 1979