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Dear Karl:
Could you please tell me the difference between "Young Marx" and "Mature Marx"?
What is the dividing line between the two? What was your writing that broke off from the "Young Marx"?
Or is there really a difference between the "Young Marx" and the "Mature Marx"?
Thank you.
Rey
I
notice that most has been said about the works of my "youth". I think
that the main feature of that is in the fact that several texts which I
wrote with Engels in the 1840's were discovered late by specialists of
your time. It has been said that these texts had been "hidden" by the
regime of the Soviet Republic, or whoever else. That leads to that
conception of "two" Marx.
My early texts are supposed to be more determined by the influence of
Hegel than my mature texts. My answer to that is that the influence of
Hegel on me rather "matured" i.e. unfolded, blossomed, gained in depth
and in dialectical density than the opposit. The influence of Hegel on
me in my early texts was more superficial, formal. It was a pose, a
coquetterie.
The turning point is my essay of 1852 on the bonapartist coup d'etat in
France. The impact of real history is the best factor of "maturation"
any theorician can dream of.
Karl Marx
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