The German Ideology: Chapter 1 (original) (raw)

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Chapter I: A Critique of

Written: Fall 1845 to mid-1846
First Published: 1932 (in full)
Source: Progress Publishers, 1968
Language: German
Transcription: Tim Delaney, Bob Schwartz, Brian Baggins
Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000

Preface

I. Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks

A. Idealism and Materialism

The Illusions of German Ideology
First Premises of the Materialist Method
History: Fundamental Conditions
Private Property and Communism

B. The Illusion of the Epoch

Civil Society — and the Conception of History
Feuerbach: Philosophic, and Real, Liberation
Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas

C. The Real Basis of Ideology

Division of Labor: Town and Country
The Rise of Manufacturing
The Relation of State and Law to Property

D. Proletarians and Communism

Individuals, Class, and Community
Forms of Intercourse
Conquest
Contradictions of Big Industry: Revolution

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