The Marx machine : politics, polemics, ideology / Charles Barbour.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-145).

Another Marx. The Leipzig massacre ; The battle of the Huns ; Bodies and machines ; A schematic design -- Of multiple breaks : Marx in Res publica. The machinic assemblage ; Marx reads Marx ; To swerve away ; On popular sovereignty ; Human, citizen, worker ; The weavers' strike ; Revolution and insurrection ; After the political -- Copying machines : reading "The Leipzig council". A pivotal text ; The tattered page ; The reading lesson ; Diabolical doubles ; Relation and exchange ; Ideology and catachresis ; Proper names ; The place of hegemony -- The fractured essence : on historical materialism. Substance and form ; Historical materialisms ; The demolition of substance ; Transforming Feuerbach ; The fractured essence ; The impure form ; Circle or line ; Epicurean Differánce -- Allegories of writing : Marx and literature. Writing Marx reading ; The house of mirrors ; Ghosts in the machine ; The original excess ; The double scene ; The virtue of machines ; Parody and equality -- Marx and us. A final obligation ; The new republicans ; The axiom of equality ; Parts with no part.

"Focusing primarily on Marx's early polemical writings, and especially the debates with Bruno Bauer and Max Stirner, that make up most of the voluminous manuscript now called 'The German Ideology," The Marx-machine endeavors to show how some of Marx's most consistently denigrated and ignored works can in fact be approached as responses to Marx's contemporary critics"--Page 4 of cover.