Marx's Scientific Criticism of Private Property:A Study Based on the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Combined with the development of Marx's thought and his lifelong pursuit,this paper reviews the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844,confirms that its central theme is private property,and uses this as a point of penetration to clarify Marx's scientific criticism of private property in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844:With the help of the theory of alienated labor,Marx reveals that the connotation of private property is capitalist relations of production according to the logical main line of the origin,essence,movement and sublation of private property;the main essence of private property is labor;the establishment process of private prop-erty is the historical process of movable property defeating immovable property;the driving force of private property development is the dialectical movement of labor and capital;the inevitable destination of the abandonment of pri-vate property is the communist society.This is Marx's first critique of capitalist society from the dimension of eco-nomics,and initially reveals the general law of the development of capitalist social movement and the historicity and impermanence of capitalist society.
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844Alienated laborPrivate propertyCommunism