TY - JOUR
TI - Young Karl Marx in the Age of Progress: the Historical Materialism of the 1840s and Its Limits
AU - Siermiński, Michał
TI - Young Karl Marx in the Age of Progress: the Historical Materialism of the 1840s and Its Limits
AB - The article discusses an early version of Karl Marx’s historical materialism. The young Marx was a child of his time—the era of rapid development of technology and science that accompanied the expansion of capitalism. In the 1840s his historical materialism was based on two premises: the Development Thesis (history is the continuous development of the productive forces) and the Primacy Thesis (the level of development of the productive forces determines social relations). On the basis of these assumptions, Marx had serious problems in theoretically grounding his growing enthusiasm for the workers’ class struggle.
VL - 2025
IS - Volume 57
PY - 2025
SN - 0078-6500
C1 - 2657-5337
SP - 159
EP - 176
DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.25.009.22613
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/young-karl-marx-in-the-age-of-progress-the-historical-materialism-of-the-1840s-and-its-limits
KW - history
KW - Karl Marx
KW - historical materialism
KW - progress
KW - historiosophy
KW - productive forces
KW - relations of production
KW - class struggle