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Title: Smart, haunting
Review: I've been told this is considered Marx's first fully matured statement about his thinking. It's an impressive piece on many levels. Not only does he effectively topple the BS uber-abstract tendencies that German philosophy had devolved into at that point (Herder, Hegel, etc.) by positing a system of thinking that was concerned with the actual material conditions of life. He also provides a devastatingly accurate description of the sense of alienation and futility which rampant, industrial-era capitalism helped bring into being. I remember walking through an abandoned shopping mall in suburban Kansas City once, feeling creeped out by all of the closed stores, the empty walkways, the haunting way the muzak still played over the speakers, and just thinking how empty and cold a space could be. Reading this took me right back there.
