Karl Marx Selected Writings

by Marx, Karl; McLellan, David

• ISBN13: 9780198782650
• ISBN10: 0198782659
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of Marx's life with the sections arranged inchronological order, thus allowing the reader to trace the development of Marx's thought, from his early years as a student and political journalist in Germany right through to his final letters of the early 1880s. The inclusion of extracts from some of Marx's less well-known works alongside selections from classic texts such as The Communist Manifesto and Capital provides the reader with an unparalleled overview of Marx's thinking, whilst Professor McLellan's fully updated and revised introduction andbibliographical notes accompanying each extract put Marx's writings into biographical and historical context. This edition also includes a general bibliography and a full index of names and ideas as well as a new general introduction for each section of the book by Professor McLellan. As with the first edition, this comprehensive and clearly structured selection of Marx's writings will be essential reading for all those interested in the political thought of this perennially important figure in Western political philosophy.

Author Biography

David McLellan is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kent. He has written and edited numerous works on Marx and Marxism, including Marxism: Essential Writings, also published by Oxford University Press.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(2)
I The Early Writings 1837--1844	3	(136)
Introduction	5	(4)
Letter to his Father	9	(6)
Doctoral Thesis	15	(7)
Preface	15	(2)
From the Notes to the Dissertation	17	(5)
Articles for the Rheinische Zeitung	22	(10)
On the Freedom of the Press	22	(1)
The Leading Article of the Kolnische Zeitung	23	(2)
Communism and the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung	25	(1)
The Law on Thefts of Wood	26	(2)
Letter to Arnold Ruge	28	(1)
On the Estates Committees in Prussia	29	(1)
Defence of the Moselle Correspondent	29	(3)
Critique of Hegel's `Philosophy of Right'	32	(11)
On Hegel's Dialectic	32	(1)
On Democracy	33	(3)
On Bureaucracy	36	(2)
On Voting	38	(5)
A Correspondence of 1843	43	(3)
On the Jewish Question	46	(25)
On The Jewish Question	46	(18)
The Capacity of Present-day Jews and Christians to Become Free	64	(7)
Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction	71	(12)
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts	83	(39)
Preface	83	(2)
Alienated Labour	85	(10)
Private Property and Communism	95	(9)
Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy	104	(14)
On money	118	(4)
Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach	122	(2)
On James Mill	124	(10)
Critical Remarks on the Article: `The King of Prussia and Social Reform'	134	(5)
II The materialist conception of history 1844--1847	139	(98)
Introduction	141	(4)
The Holy Family	145	(26)
On Proudhon	146	(2)
Alienation and the Proletariat	148	(2)
On Idealist Philosophy	150	(3)
The Idealist View of History	153	(6)
The Jewish Question Revisited	159	(2)
The French Revolution	161	(2)
French Materialism and the Origins of Socialism	163	(8)
Theses on Feuerbach	171	(4)
The German Ideology	175	(34)
Preface	175	(1)
The Premisses of the Materialist Method	176	(8)
Private Property and Communism	184	(3)
Communism and History	187	(9)
Communist Revolution	196	(2)
Egoism and Communism	198	(2)
Power as the Basis of Right	200	(1)
Utilitarianism	201	(4)
Artistic Talent under Communism	205	(2)
The Free Development of Individuals in Communist Society	207	(2)
Letter to Annekov	209	(3)
The Poverty of Philosophy	212	(22)
Value and Labour Time	212	(3)
Class Antagonism	215	(1)
Method in Political Economy	215	(15)
On Strikes	230	(4)
Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality	234	(3)
III 1848 and after	237	(136)
Introduction	239	(6)
The Communist Manifesto	245	(28)
Bourgeois and Proletarians	246	(9)
Proletarians and Communists	255	(7)
Socialist and Communists Literature	262	(8)
Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties	270	(3)
Wage-Labour and Capital	273	(22)
Speech on Free Trade	295	(2)
Articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung	297	(6)
The Revolution in Germany	297	(2)
England and the Revolution	299	(1)
Taxes	299	(1)
Marx's Defence Speech at his Trial	300	(3)
Address to the Communist League	303	(10)
The Class Struggles in France	313	(13)
Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League	326	(3)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte	329	(27)
Journalism of the 1850s	356	(12)
British Political Parties	356	(6)
The Future Results of British Rule in India	362	(6)
Speech on the Anniversary of the People's Paper	368	(2)
Letters 1848--1857	370	(3)
Prospects for Revolution in Europe	370	(1)
Class Struggle and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat	371	(1)
The Army and Historical Materialism	372	(1)
IV The `economics' 1857--1867	373	(196)
Introduction	375	(4)
Grundrisse	379	(45)
General Introduction	380	(15)
The Social Character of Production	395	(2)
The Rise and Downfall of Capitalism	397	(3)
Alienated Labour	400	(5)
Machinery, Automation, Free Time, and Communism	405	(19)
Preface to A Critique of Political Economy	424	(5)
Theories of Surplus Value	429	(23)
Alienated Labour in Capitalist Society	429	(2)
Unproductive Labour	431	(1)
Peasants and Artisans in Capitalist Society	432	(2)
Ricardo and the Value of Labour	434	(1)
Ricardo and Surplus Value	435	(10)
Ricardo and the Middle Class	445	(1)
Production and Consumption	446	(1)
The Unhistorical Outlook of Classical Economy	447	(2)
The Progress of Capitalist Production: A Summary	449	(3)
Capital	452	(95)
From Volume One
From the Prefaces	452	(6)
Commodities: Use-Value and Exchange-Value	458	(14)
The Fetishism of Commodities	472	(9)
Exchange and Money	481	(1)
The General Formula for Capital	482	(6)
The Sale of Labour Power	488	(4)
The Production of Surplus Value	492	(16)
Constant and Variable Capital	508	(2)
The Rate of Surplus Value	510	(2)
The Working Day	512	(1)
The Division of Labour	513	(2)
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation	515	(6)
Primitive Accumulation	521	(2)
The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation	523	(3)
From Volume Three
The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall	526	(4)
The Trinity Formula	530	(14)
Classes	544	(3)
Results of the Immediate Process of Production	547	(15)
Alienation in the Productive Process	547	(3)
Capitalism as a Stage towards Socialism	550	(1)
Factory Worker and Artisan	551	(1)
Productive and Unproductive Labour	551	(3)
Alienated Labour	554	(2)
The Reproduction of the Capitalist Relationship	556	(6)
Letters 1858--1868	562	(7)
Marx on his `Economics'	562	(3)
On Darwin	565	(1)
On Machinery	565	(4)
V Later Political writings 1864--1882	569	(76)
Introduction	571	(4)
Inaugural Address to the First International	575	(8)
On Trade Unions	583	(1)
The Civil War in France	584	(20)
From the Published Version	584	(12)
From the Drafts	596	(8)
Preface to the Second German Edition of the Communist Manifesto	604	(2)
On Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy	606	(4)
Critique of the Gotha Programme	610	(7)
Letter to Mikhailovsky	617	(3)
Circular Letter	620	(3)
Letter to Vera Sassoulitch	623	(6)
Letter	623	(1)
From the Drafts	624	(5)
Comments on Adolph Wagner	629	(2)
Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto	631	(2)
Letters 1863--1881	633	(12)
On Working-class Consciousness	633	(5)
On Ireland	638	(2)
On the Commune	640	(2)
On Violent Revolution	642	(3)
Chronological Table	645	(2)
Bibliography	647	(18)
Index of Names	665	(8)
Index of Subjects	673