The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx. Short summary

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The paper presents a critique of Proudhon’s book, outlines the provisions of Marx’s economic teachings, the theory of a materialist understanding of history, and reflects the foundations of the future theory of surplus value.

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The paper presents a critique of Proudhon’s book, The System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Poverty. The author recounts the provisions of his own economic doctrine and gives the basis of a materialist understanding of history.

The writer articulates the relationship between productive forces and relations. He explains economic categories in terms of materialist theory, according to which they are theoretical expressions, abstractions of production relations. The work also reflects the expressions that would become the basis of the theory of surplus value in the future and would be developed in the work «Capital».