n Annuals_), the
purpose of which was to promote the union of German philosophy with
French social science. Only one double-number of this journal appeared
in 1844. It contained Marx's criticism of the Hegelian Philosophy of
Right and his exposition of the social significance of the Jewish
question, in the form of a review of two works by Bruno Bauer.

Translations of both articles are given in this volume.

They possess a special interest for the Marxian student, as they
exhibit the grafting of a materialist philosophy upon the idealist
philosophy of Hegel, and show the employment of the Hegelian dialectic
in the investigation of political and historical questions.

It was not long before Marx and Ruge became intellectually estranged,
and the third essay, "The King of Prussia and Social Reform," which
appeared in the Paris socialist journal _Vorwaerts_, contains a severe
polemic against Ruge. In the same organ Marx published an elaborate
defence of Engels in particular and communists in general from the
strictures of Karl Heinzen, a radical republican politician. In both
essays Marx ranges over a wide field, and develops his own views upon
economic, political and historical questions.

The essay on Proudhon emphasizes the special merits of that writer as
a pioneer of economic criticism, and forms a counterweight to Marx's
devastating criticism of Proudhon in the "Poverty of Philosophy." This
piece and the sketch of French materialism are extracted from _Die
Heilige Familie_ (_The Holy Family_), a comprehensive work of
satirical criticism, in which Marx and Engels (whose share in writing
the book was a very small one), settled accounts with their
philosophic conscience.

The critique of the views of M. Guizot upon the English and French
middle-class revolutions appeared in the _Neue Rhenische Revue_ (_New
Rhenish Review_), a periodical which Marx and Engels edited from
London in 1850.

H.J.S.

CONTENTS

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A CRITICISM OF THE HEGELIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT 11

ON THE JEWISH QUESTION 40

ON THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND SOCIAL REFORM 98

MORALISING CRITICISM AND CRITICAL MORALITY: A POLEMIC
AGAINST KARL HEINZEN 134

PROUDHON