The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 constitute one of Karl Marx’s most renowned and widespread writings worldwide. However, this much debated and present in the Marxist debates’ text, remained unknown for a long time. The instrumental readings which different groups made on the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 are a clear example of how Marx’s work was constantly the object of theoretical-political conflict. To better highlight this reality, the second and third paragraphs of this article reconstruct the editorial difficulties associated with its publication. The fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs, however, provide a brief review. A philological analysis of the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 based on the new historical-critical MEGA edition was developed in the seventh and eighth paragraphs. In the conclusion, follows a table that reconstructs the chronology of the elaboration of the manuscripts and notebooks of excerpts of the period.
EPM of 1844; Young Marx; Marxism; Alienation; MEGA