"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" ("Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844") is the unfinished economic and philosophical work of the German thinker Karl Marx. The manuscript was not published during Marx's lifetime, and it was not published in full for the first time until 1932. [1]

This book is the initial result of Marx’s research on political economy and philosophy, and includes three interrelated manuscripts. The first manuscript is a study and analysis of wages, capital profits, and land rent; the second manuscript is an analysis of private property and its movement; the third manuscript is a further study of private property, division of labor, and currency, and the results derived from it. It triggered Marx's concept of communism, Marx's concept of historical materialism and the systematic cleaning up of Hegel's philosophy. [2]

This book is the first crystallization of philosophy and economics. It pioneered the path of economic research under the guidance of philosophy and the development path of philosophy based on economics. Marx’s first product The theory of doctrine is based on this combination. At the same time, this book is also the starting point of Marx’s lifelong critical research on political economy. It was praised by Althusser as “the forerunner of Capital, the draft of Capital, or the sketch of Capital.”

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