The Poverty of Philosophy

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff

Marx started work on this book in January 1847, as can be judged from Engel's letter to Marx on January 15, 1847. By the beginning of April 1847, Marx's work was completed in the main and had gone to the press. On June 15, 1847, he wrote a short foreword.

Published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, the book was not republished in full during Marx's lifetime. Excerpts from section five of Chapter Two appeared in different years, mostly between 1872-1875 in papers such as La Emancipacion, Der Volksstaat, Social-Demokrat, and others. In 1880 Marx attempted to publish the Poverty of Philosophy in the French socialist newspaper L'Égalité, the organ of the French Workers' Party, but only the foreword and section one of Chapter One were published.

This translation is from the original 1847 French edition. It has been updated to also include the changes/corrections Marx made in the copy of the book he presented to N. Utina in 1876, as well as the corrections made by Frederick Engels in the second French edition and the German editions of 1885 and 1892. The first English edition of this work was published in 1900 by Twentieth Century Press.

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A squandering of great ideas, through ineptitude.

As I listened to the preview of this book I heard an incredible voice actor; obviously with a professional setup, and was armed with an understanding of the meaning behind the words he was reading, (which is rare for audiobooks written by marx or engels)
So I purchased the audio book excited to begin listening. after an amazing introduction with the same voice actor from the preview had concluded I was shocked to discover a change in voice actor, this one had a terrible setup, with pitchy and untouched audio, and the obviously apparent fact that the voice actor in question had absolutely no idea of the meaning and scope of the words coming out of his mouth.
I am truly disappointed with my experience and I suggest to all who are interested in this book, that by all means please read/listen to it as marx sets forth ideas of a most pervasive and apt nature here in this book. but by no means should you be subjected to a sqaundering of those ideas through such a lack of care and consideration, that, one could go so far as to describe it as suprression.