The German Ideology was never published in Marx and Engels’ lifetimes. Several publishers, who either objected to its critique of the Young Hegelians or feared that its radical ideas would attract the wrath of the Prussian censors, turned it down, and it was eventually abandoned, as Marx put it, \Fortunately, the manuscript survived, and it remains today a classic introduction to the materialist understanding of history, capitalism and revolution.
1 Germany was not united as a single country until much later in the 19th century. At this time, the German population was still divided between dozens of small states, Prussia being by far the largest.
2 Robert C. Tucker (ed.), \Philosophy of Right: Introduction,\edition (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 59.
3 Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Volume I: State and Bureaucracy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977) p. 31.
4 Tucker, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 3.
5 The German Ideology is a long work, divided into several sections, but only part one, \Idealist Outlook,\Ideology in this article are from the edition edited by C.J. Arthur (New York: International Publishers, 1970).
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