The German Ideology
Work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, written 1845–1846
The German Ideology
The German Ideology (German: Die Deutsche Ideologie) is a work written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1845–1846. After their failure to find a publisher, Marx famously remarked that they had left it to "the gnawing criticism of the mice"; it went unpublished during their lifetimes. The book as it is known today is an editorial construction from the manuscripts first published in their entirety in 1932 by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. It marks the authors' definitive break from German idealism and sets the foundation for their later economic and political works, including The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. The German Ideology is a major work of political and philosophical thought, considered the first to be recognizably "Marxist". In it, Marx and Engels articulate for the first time their materialist conception of history, also known as historical materialism. This new worldview posits that the material conditions of individuals' lives—specifically their mode of production...
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