Marx and Engels Selected Works
Short List for beginners
1845: Theses on Feuerbach
1846: [A Critique of] the German Ideology
1847: Principles of Communism
1848: The Communist Manifesto
1849: Wage-Labor and Capital
1859: Preface to Contribution to critique of political economy
1867: Capital, Chapter One
1871: The Civil War in France
1875: Critique of the Gotha Program
1880: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
1886: Ludwig Feuerbach
Theses on Feuerbach 1845, by Marx
13
A Critique of the German Ideology 1845-46, by Marx & Engels
16
The Principles of Communism 1847, by Engels
81
Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848, by Marx & Engels
98
The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-revolution: Part 2 1848, by Marx
138
Wage Labour and Capital 1847, by Marx
142
Address to the Communist League 1850, by Marx & Engels
175
The Class Struggle in France, 1848 to 1850 1850, by Marx
186
Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1852, by Engels
300
The Late Trial at Cologne 1852, by Engels
388
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 1852, by Marx
394
The British Rule in India 1853, by Marx & Engels
488
The Future Results of British Rule in India 1853, by Marx & Engels
494
Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper 1856, by Marx
500
Abstract of Preface from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 1859, by Marx 502
Appendix to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 1859, by Engels 507
Letters: 517
Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov, December 28, 1846
517
Marx to J. Weydemeyer in New York, March 5, 1852
528
Marx to Engels in Manchester, April 16, 1856
528
Marx to Engels in Ryde, September 25, 1857
529
Bibliography
Collected Works
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Berlin
English Translations
• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Collected Works. New York and London: International Publishers. 1975.
Selected Writings
• Karl Marx: Selected Writings (2nd edn) ed David McLennan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Selected Works, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 2 Volumes, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962.
Life
• McLellan, David, Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, London: McMillan, 1973.
• Wheen, Francis, Karl Marx, London Fourth Estate, 1999.
Introductions
• Singer, Peter, Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
• Wolff, Jonathan, Why Read Marx Today?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
Other Secondary Sources
• Acton, H.B., The Illusion of the Epoch, London: Cohen and West, 1955.
• Avineri, Shlomo, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
• Carver, Terrell, Marx's Social Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Carver, Terrell, (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Cohen, G.A., Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (2nd edn), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Cohen, G.A. History, Labour and Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Elster, Jon, Making Sense of Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985
• Geras, Norman, ‘The Controversy about Marx and Justice’ in A. Callinicos (ed) Marxist Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Hook, Sidney, From Hegel to Marx, New York: Humanities Press, 1950.
• Kolakowski, Leszek, Main Currents of Marxism (3 vols,) Oxford: Oxford. University Press, 1978.
• Husami, Ziyad ‘Marx on Distributive Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1978, 8 pp. 27-64.
• Lukes, Stephen, Marxism and Morality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Maguire, John, Marx's Paris Writings, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972.
• McLellan, David, Marx Before Marxism, London: Mcmillan, 1970.
• Miller, Richard, Analyzing Marx, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Robinson, Joan, An Essay on Marxian Economics, London: Mcmillan, 1942.
• Roemer, John, A General Theory of Exploitation and Class, Cambridge Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1982.
• Rosen, Michael, On Voluntary Servitude, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996.
• Sober, E., Levine, A., and Wright, E.O. Reconstructing Marx, London: Verso, 1992.
• Sweezy, Paul, The Theory of Capitalist Development, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1942, 1970.
• Wolff, Robert Paul, Understanding Marx , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Wood, Allen, Karl Marx, London Routledge, 1981.
• Wood, Allen, ‘The Marxian Critique of Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1972 1, pp. 244-82.
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