5/13 Readings | Marx’s The German Ideology and Monique Wittig with Jules Gleeson

Juliana Gleeson

Primary text:

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology

  • in German, in the most current, updated, and editorially revised MEGA2 version, in Deutsche Ideologie: Manuscript und Drucke Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Ertse Abteilung, Band 5, ed. Ulrich Pagel, Gerald Hamann, and Christine Weckwerth (De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2017)

  • in English, in the earlier conventional editorial version, in The Marx-Engels Collected Works, Vol. 5 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2014)

  • in English, in the earlier conventional editorial version, in The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), pp. 146-200

  • online at marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Secondary text:

Monique Wittig, “The Category of Sex” from The Straight Mind and Other Essays, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)

Additional Resources:

Louis Althusser, “On The Young Marx,” in For Marx, (New York: Verso, 1965/2006)

Jules Gleeson, “Introduction” and “Chapter 4: How Do Gender Transitions Happen?” from Transgender Marxism (London: Pluto Press, May 2021).

Sarah Johnson, “Farewell to The German Ideology,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 83, No. 1, 143-170 (January 2022).