The Poverty of Philosophy

Karl Marx

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Marx's 1847 reply to Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty, written in French. Attacking Proudhon's economics and his use of Hegel, Marx sets out for the first time in print the core ideas of his materialist view of history.

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