Through the publication of the first volume of "Marx Engels Gesamtausgabe" it was possible to show that "Marx and Engels did not write the manuscripts on the “German ideology” as part of a book project, but rather as part of a magazine project in which other authors (Moses Hess, Georg Weerth, Wilhelm Weitling, etc.) were also involved. Recent research for the new Marx Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) indicates that much of the "system" of the "materialist conception of history" in the first part of the book was created afterwards by the Marx-Engels Institute. The text in German runs to around 700 pages. Chapter V in Volume II was written by Moses Hess and edited by Marx and Engels. The bulk of the manuscript is in Engels' hand, except for Chapter V of Volume II and some passages of Chapter III of Volume I which are in Joseph Weydemeyer's hand.
The Preface and some of the alterations and additions are in Marx's hand. The text itself was written by Marx and Engels in Brussels in 18 but it was not published until 1932. The first part of Volume I also examines the division of labor and Marx's theory of human nature, on which he states that humans "distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence". It criticizes "ideology" as a form of "historical idealism", as opposed to Marx's historical materialism (the "materialist conception of history"). The book uses satirical polemics to critique modern German philosophy, particularly that of young Hegelians such as Marx's former mentor Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own. Marx and Engels did not find a publisher, but the work was retrieved and first published in 1932 by Soviet Union's Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute. The German Ideology (German: Die deutsche Ideologie), also known as A Critique of the German Ideology, is a set of manuscripts written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels around April or early May 1846.
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