Historical Materialism in the Critique of Political Economy

YANG, Haifeng

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-3545-1_2

Haifeng YANG³

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Abstract

The internal relations between philosophy, political economy, and socialist thought in Marxian thinking are essential in understanding the philosophical context of Capital. The above three aspects exist as three distinct disciplines without internal relations in past research. This situation results in the loss of characteristics of Marxian thought so that the analytical depth revealed by Marx’s texts cannot be fully understood.

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In this sense, the fundamental tenets of Marxism fit the internal law of Marxist thought development. Unfortunately, in present theoretical frameworks of Marxism’s tenets, philosophy, political economy, and scientific socialism are divided into three nonrelational parts. Without the integration of the three, Marx’s thoughts “bottoms out” with the present theoretical framework of Marxism’s tenets.
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Hegal (2008).
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Hegel, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, 190.
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Smith (1977).
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Hegal (1807), 172.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 3:332–3.
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Hegel, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, 187.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 33:75.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 29:262.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 31:312–3.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 28:189.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 28:412.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 28:382.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 38:96.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 38:97.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 38:100.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 38: 97.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 38:102.
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Say Say (1971).
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Ricardo (2010).
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 29:77.
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Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 29.
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Marx (1971).
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Bray (1968), 59–60.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 3: 274.
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Bray, Labor’s Wrongs and Labor’s Remedy, 48.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 29:475.
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Marx (1963), 265.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1: 399–400.
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Marx (1887).
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value. 1: 400.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value. 1:44.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value. 1:393.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value. 1:390.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1:393.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1:396.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1:397.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1:398–9.
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Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1:408.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 30:63.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 30:64–65.
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Marx and Engels, Marx and Engels Collected Works, 30:99.

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YANG, H. (2023). Historical Materialism in the Critique of Political Economy. In: The Philosophy of Capital. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3545-1_2

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