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**The Poverty of Philosophy** (French: *Misère de la philosophie*) is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. It was originally written in French as a critique of the economic and philosophical arguments of French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon set forth in his 1846 book *The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty*.
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- Author
- Karl Marx
- First published
- 1847
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- M. Lawrence limited, Edaf S.A., Folio Pub. Corp.
- Editions
- 71
- Language
- dan, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780717801633
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“The capacity possessed by all products, natural or industrial, to serve the subsistence of man is specially described as utility-value; the capacity they have of being given in exchange for each other as exchange-value. . . .”
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
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