Musto, Marcello2021-10-192021-10-192008“History, Production and Method in the ‘1857 Introduction’”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.) Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, London–New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 3-32, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203892107.9780429239601https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203892107http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38573In 1857 Marx was convinced that the financial crisis developing at international level had created the conditions for a new revolutionary period throughout Europe. He had been waiting for this moment ever since the popular insurrections of 1848, and now that it finally seemed to have come he did not want events to catch him unprepared. He therefore decided to resume his economic studies and to give them a finished form.enThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later on July 6, 2010, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203892107.Book Chapterhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/https://www.routledge.com/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203892107/karl-marx-grundrisse-marcello-musto