Practice question · True or false
Marx’s writings on alienation were composed in 1844 but not published until 1932, so they played no part in how his work was read during the nineteenth century.
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- Ask what a reader in 1890 could actually have had on the shelf.
- The manuscripts sat unpublished for nearly ninety years.
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True
Why
True, and it reshaped the reception. Twentieth-century readings that put alienation and species-being at the centre are working from a text no nineteenth-century Marxist had seen, which is one reason the "humanist Marx" arrived as a discovery in the 1930s and 1960s rather than as a continuation.
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