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The Poverty of Philosophy

Overview

The Poverty of Philosophy (French: Misère de la philosophie) is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. It was originally written in French as a critique of the economic and philosophical theory of mutualism as proposed by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon set forth in his 1846 book The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty.

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Philosophers who discussed The Poverty of Philosophy

• Karl Marx
• Young Marx
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Marx/Engels Collected Works

Related ideas

• French language
• Productive forces
• Anarchism
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Philosophy
• Private property
• Karl Popper
• Karl Marx
• Mutualism (economic theory)
• Marxism
• Law of value
• University of California Press
• Paris
• Prussia
• Working class
• Capitalist mode of production
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Morality
• Proletariat
• Friedrich Engels
• Science of Logic
• Bruno Bauer
• Joan Robinson

Place in the tradition

Part of French philosophy.

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