Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, and has published worldwide in more than twenty languages. Among his most recent edited books there are Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (2019), and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020). He is the author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020).

“The texts excerpted are organized chronologically, and the different works from which they are taken are each introduced by a brief paragraph suggesting points of significance. … thanks to Marcello Musto for revisiting the concept of alienation and highlighting the importance of interrogating this theme today.” (Howard Engelskirchen, Science & Society, Vol. 87 (4), October 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Early Philosophical and Political Writings.- 3. From the Grundrisse to the Theories of Surplus-Value.- 4. Capital and Its Preparatory Manuscripts.

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, and has published worldwide in more than twenty languages. Among his most recent edited books there are Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (2019), and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020). He is the author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020).

“The texts excerpted are organized chronologically, and the different works from which they are taken are each introduced by a brief paragraph suggesting points of significance. … thanks to Marcello Musto for revisiting the concept of alienation and highlighting the importance of interrogating this theme today.” (Howard Engelskirchen, Science & Society, Vol. 87 (4), October 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Early Philosophical and Political Writings.- 3. From the Grundrisse to the Theories of Surplus-Value.- 4. Capital and Its Preparatory Manuscripts.

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, and has published worldwide in more than twenty languages. Among his most recent edited books there are Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (2019), and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (2020). He is the author of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018), and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (2020).

“The texts excerpted are organized chronologically, and the different works from which they are taken are each introduced by a brief paragraph suggesting points of significance. … thanks to Marcello Musto for revisiting the concept of alienation and highlighting the importance of interrogating this theme today.” (Howard Engelskirchen, Science & Society, Vol. 87 (4), October 2023)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Early Philosophical and Political Writings.- 3. From the Grundrisse to the Theories of Surplus-Value.- 4. Capital and Its Preparatory Manuscripts.