马克思在一八四二年到一八四三年担任《莱茵报》主编期间,遇到了要对物质利益发表意见的问题。当时莱茵省反动当局在农民状况、自由贸易和保护关税等问题上,同《莱茵报》展开了论战,他必须答复。但他在大学学的是法律专业,而对这些问题的回答却需要政治经济学方面的知识,这就使他在工作中面临着知识不足的问题。为此,便成了促使他“研究经济问题的最初动因。”他克服了许多难以想象的困难,发奋研究经济学这门科学,后来写出了《资本论》这样的 During his tenure as chief editor of the Rheinis newspaper from 1842 to 1843, Marx encountered the issue of expressing his opinions on the material interests. At that time, the reactionary authorities in the Rhine province had a polemic against the Rheinische Zeitung over issues such as peasant status, free trade and tariff protection, and he must reply. However, he studied law at university, and answering these questions required the knowledge of political economy, which made him face the problem of lack of knowledge in his work. For this reason, he became the first motivator for him to “study economic problems.” He overcame many unimaginable difficulties and made great efforts to study the science of economics and later wrote “Capitalism”