MIA: M.I.A. Library: Marx & Engels: Selected Works

 

Selected Works (Vol. 1)

Progress Publishers, 1968

Karl Marx: Brief biographical sketch with an exposition of Marxism by V.I. Lenin 11
Engels by V.I. Lenin 15
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin 23
Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx 28
Manifesto of the Communist Party 31

Preface to the German Edition of 1872

31

From the Preface to the German Edition of 1890

32

Manifesto of the Communist Party

I. Bourgeois and Proletarians

35

II. Proletarians and Communists

46

III. Socialist and Communist Literature

53

1. Reactionary Socialism

53

A. Feudal Socialism

53

B. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism

55

C. German or “True” Socialism

56

2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism

58

3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism

59

IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

62
Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx 64

Introduction by Engels

64

Wage Labor and Capital

72
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx 95

Preface to the Third German Edition by Engels

95

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

I.

97

II.

105

III.

115

IV.

127

V.

136

VI.

152

VII.

168
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 181
Wages, Price and Profit by Karl Marx 186

[Preliminary]

186

I. [Production and Wages]

186

II. [Production, Wages, Profits]

188

III. [Wages and Currency]

195

IV. [Supply and Demand]

198

V. [Wages and Prices]

200

VI. [Value and Labour]

202

VII. Labouring Power

209

VIII. Production of Surplus Value

211

IX. Value of Labour

213

X. Profit is made by Selling a Commodity at its Value

214

XI. The different Parts into which Surplus Value is Decomposed

215

XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages and Prices

217

XIII. Main cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting their Fall

219

XIV. The Struggle between Capital and Labour and its Results

224
Preface to the First German Edition of Capital by Karl Marx 230
Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation by Marx, Capital Ch XXXII, Vol. I 235
Preface to The Peasant War in Germany 238

Supplement to the Preface of 1870 for the Third Edition of 1875

238
The Civil War in France by Marx 252

Introduction by Engels

252

First Address of the General Council of the International

263

Second Address of the General Council of the International

267
The Civil War in France. Address of the General Council of the International

I. [France Capitulates & the Government of Thiers]

274

II. Paris Workers' Revolution & Thiers' Reactionary Massacres]

282

III. [The Paris Commune]

288

IV. [The Fall of Paris]

301

Notes.

311
Apropos of Working-Class Political Action by Engels 314
Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx 315

Part I.

319

Part II.

328

Part III.

329

Part IV.

330

Letter to A. Bebel by Engels

336
Introduction to Dialectics of Nature by Engels 342
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man by Engels 358
Karl Marx by Engels 369
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels 379

Special Introduction to the English Edition of 1892

379

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Part I: [Utopian Socialism]

399

Part II: [Dialectics]

410

Part III: [Historical Materialism]

417
Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx by Engels 435
On the History of the Communist League by Engels 437
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels 455

Preface to the First Edition 1884

455

Preface to the Fourth Edition 1891

457

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Stages of Prehistoric Culture

468

The Family

473

The Iroquois Gens

518

The Greek Gens [The Rise of Private Property]

530

The Rise of the Athenian State

537

The Gens and the State in Rome

546

The Gens Among Celts and Germans

555

The Formation of the State Among the Germans

567

Barbarism and Civilization

576

Appendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage

 
Ludwig Feuerbach & the end of Classical German Philosophy 594

Foreword

594

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

Part 1: Hegel

596

Part 2: Materialism

603

Part 3: Feuerbach

611

Part 4: Marx

618
The Peasant Question in France and Germany 633
Introduction to Marx's The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 651
Letters669

Marx to P. V. Annenkov, December 28, 1846

669

Marx to J. Weydemeyer, March 5, 1852

679

Marx to L. Kugelmann, April 12, 1871

679

Marx to L. Kugelmann, April 17, 1871

681

Marx to F. Bolte, November 23, 1871

681

Engels to A. Bebel, June 20, 1873

684

Marx to W. Blos, November 10, 1877

687

Engels to K. Kautsly, September 12, 1882

688

Engels to C. Schmidt, August 5, 1890

688

Engels to Otto von Boenigk, August 21, 1890

690

Engels to J. Bloch, September 21, 1890

692

Engels to C. Schmidt, October 27, 1890

694

Engels to F. Mehring, July 14, 1893

699

Engels to W. Borgius, January 25, 1894

704