The Communist Manifesto With Related Documents

by Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick; Toews, John E.

• ISBN13: 9781319094836
• ISBN10: 131909483X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-09-08
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Does the closing of the cold war era open up the possibility of reading the Communist Manifesto in new ways? In the first teaching edition of the post-Cold War era, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century. Together with the complete text of the work, this brief volume includes some key foundational documents by Hegel, Feverbach, Marx, Engels, and others that show the evolution of and influences on Marxist theory over time. The editor's introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1830s onward, while providing background on the political, social, and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was a historical product.

Author Biography

John E. Toews (Ph.D., Harvard University) is professor of history at the University of Washington and has also taught at Columbia University. He has published widely on the theory and practice of contemporary historiography, the history of psychoanalysis, and the development of historical consciousness in nineteenth-century German culture, including Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism (1981). He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize fellowship and is completing a book on the culture of historicism in Berlin during the 1840s.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Illustrations

PART ONE

Introduction: Historical Contexts of the Communist Manifesto

Immediate Historical Contexts of the Manifesto

Historical Premises of the Manifesto
Specters of Politics and Ideology

From the Manifesto to Capital: The Lessons of History and the Laws of History

PART TWO

The Document

PART THREE

Related Documents

1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848, 1987

2. Frederick Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith, June 9, 1847

3. Frederick Engels, from A Letter to Karl Marx, November 23/24, 1847

4. Frederick Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845

5. Robert Owen, from Report to the Country of Lanark, 1820

6. Charles Fourier, from The Theory of the Four Movements and of the General Destinies, 1808

7. Charles Fourier, from The Theory of Universal Unity, 1841-1843

8. Robert Owen, from Report to the Country of Lanark, 1820

9. The Six Points of the People’s Charter, 1838

10. James Bronterre O’Brien, Private Property, 1841

11. G.W.F. Hegel, from Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History, 1837

12. Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, 1957

13. Karl Marx, ?from Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law, 1844

14. Karl Marx, from On the Jewish Question, 1843

15. Ludwig Feuerbach, from Principles of the Philosophy of the Future, 1843

16. Moses Hess, A Communist Credo: Questions and Answers, 1844

17. Karl Marx, from The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, 1844

18. Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, 1845

19. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology, 1845-1846

20. Karl Marx, from The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850, 1850

21. Karl Marx, from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

22. Karl Marx, from Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association, October 1864

23. Karl Marx, Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital, 1873

24. Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof, 1867

25. Frederick Engels, Speech at Karl Marx’s Funeral, March 1883

APPENDIXES

Chronology for the Historical Contexts of the Manifesto (1765 – 1895)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index