"Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" is one of the earliest and at the same time one of the most cited works of Karl Marx, in which he first tried to generalize and systematize the results of his economic research from a philosophical point of view. There is an opinion that Marx did not leave a philosophical system and his main legacy is the monumental “Capital”, but in reality, 25-year-old Marx formulated all the main philosophical postulates in this small, but very capacious work covering the main problems and contradictions of social and economic inequality. Everything Marx said in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 - think about it! 178 years ago! - remains relevant to this day, and today, more than ever, it is the philosophical understanding of the driving forces of history, the essence and historical nature of private property and alienated labor that comes to the fore.