Editing Europa: The Last Battle (section)

====== "Hess converted them to communism and assisted them with their work The Communist Manifesto" ======
Hess first came into contact with Marx in 1842 - working together on a newspaper in the intellectual, communist environment of Paris - and their relationship was quite the opposite, Marx was the teacher of Hess.<ref>"[Marx] goes beyond Strauss and even beyond Feuerbach . . . Such a man I always wanted to have as my teacher in philosophy. Only now do I feel what an idiot in philosophy have I been. But patience! I will still learn something. Dr Marx – this is the name of my idol" - A letter to Berthold Auerbach by Moses Hess

https://assets.cambridge.org/052138/7566/frontmatter/0521387566_frontmatter.pdf</ref> Marx early writings are available here,<ref>https://files.libcom.org/files/Marx-Early-Writings.pdf</ref> where he slowly lands in the conclusion of communism, from an entirely different angle, a materialist one, than Hess. Marx writes that he was influenced not only by Hess, but by French and English socialists which were Utopian Christians, furthermore by Weitling (the leader of League of the Just founded 1836) and Engels - who together with Hess were the only Germans to translate French communist ideas into German.<ref>https://philarchive.org/archive/KOVMHM<nowiki/>Economic Manuscripts (1844)

"It goes without saying that besides the French and English socialists, I have also used German socialist works. The only ''original'' German works of substance in this science, however, - other than Weitling's writings - are the essays by ''Hess...'' and Engels"</ref> While Hess definitely influenced both on the subject of money and alienation by loss of communal property, the narrative is deeply misconstrued. Hess came to his conclusion from a theological perspective, money as separation from god, while Marx and Engels where materialists. Furthermore, when Marx and Engels wrote the communist manifesto, they would critique Hess's Utopian form of communism. '''Verdict''': False