Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx. Short summary

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Marx’s writings, which reflect his philosophical and economic views. He criticizes political economy, considering its shortcoming a lack of understanding of the relationships between the phenomena under study.

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Marx’s writings reflect his philosophical and economic views. He criticizes political economy, as it only states the facts, not linking them together. The author came to these conclusions through empirical analysis, which was based on a critical study of political economy.

The work also contains a critique of the capitalist regime, which condemns the working class to poverty and relegation to the level of a machine. While studying the political economy of Smith and Ricardo, Marx came to the conclusion that their recognition of labor as the sole source of all wealth could be considered the highest degree of development of the science of economics at the time.

The author considers a significant shortcoming of political economy to be the lack of understanding of the relationships between the phenomena it studies. A large part of the work is devoted to explaining the concept of alienation and the alienation of labor. He deduces the main paradox, according to which the more the worker produces wealth, the poorer he becomes.