The Critique of Liberalism

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the first original elaboration of Marx’s political philosophy, expounded in the Jewish Question and in the writings of the same period. One of the main themes of this phase of the Marxian thought is the critique of the “Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen”; according to him, the Declaration only expresses the principles of bourgeois emancipation, which have little to do with the real human emancipation that is the aim of Marx’s politics.