The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics) by Avineri, Shlomo. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780521040716.

Ever since the discovery of Marxs Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marxs intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the young Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the older Marx, who was held to be a determinist with little concern for anything outside his narrow theory of historical materialism. Dr Avineri claims that such a gap between the young and older Marx did not exist. He supports his claim by a detailed study of the whole corpus of Marxs writing on social and political thought.