German Ideology, Part 1 and Selections from Parts 2 and 3 (New World… (vuoden 1970 painos)

Extremely interesting book. It contains the most basic and essential parts of Marx and Engels thoughts. Reading through this has allowed me to better understand communism and especially that of which Marx had dreamed of, not the perversion that spawned from Lenin and Stalin.

Worth reading for those with an interest in the history of philosophy (particularly German idealism and communism), and also to gain some context on some oft-quoted philosophical aphorisms, most notably the last thesis of the "theses on Feuerbach": "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

Beyond that, Part 1 is interesting though generally lacking in argumentative rigour, and I found the selections from parts 2 and 3 to be too disjointed to be worth reading in their entirety. ( )