The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition)

by Engels, Friedrich; Marx, Karl; Tucker, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780393090406
• ISBN10: 039309040X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1978-03-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix	(6)
Chronology: The Lives of Marx and Engels	xv	(4)
Introduction	xix	(20)
Note on Texts and Terminology	xxxix
Part I. The Early Marx	3	(200)
Marx on the History of His Opinions (Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)	3	(4)
Discovering Hegel (Marx to his father)	7	(2)
To Make the World Philosophical (from Marx's doctoral dissertation)	9	(3)
For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (Marx to Arnold Ruge)	12	(4)
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right	16	(10)
On the Jewish Question	26	(27)
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction	53	(13)
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844	66	(60)
Critical Marginal Notes on the Article "The King of Prussia and Social Reform"	126	(7)
Alienation and Social Classes (from The Holy Family)	133	(3)
Society and Economy in History (Marx to P.V. Annenkov)	136	(7)
Theses on Feuerbach	143	(3)
The German Ideology: Part I	146	(57)
Part II. The Critique of Capitalism	203	(266)
Wage Labour and Capital	203	(15)
The Coming Unheaval (From The Poverty of Philosophy)	218	(2)
Class Struggle and Mode of Production (Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer)	220	(1)
The Grundrisse	221	(73)
Capital, Volume One	294	(145)
Capital, Volume Three	439	(4)
Crisis Theory (from Theories of Surplus Value)	443	(26)
Part III. Revolutionary Program and Strategy	469	(108)
Manifesto of the Communist Party	469	(32)
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League	501	(11)
Inaugural Address of the Working Men's International Association	512	(8)
Economics and Politics in the Labor Movement (Marx to F. Bolte)	520	(1)
Against Personality Cults (Marx to W. Blos)	521	(1)
The Possibility of Non-Violent Revolution (the Amsterdam speech)	522	(3)
Critique of the Gotha Program	525	(17)
After the Revolution: Marx Debates Bakunin	542	(7)
Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke, and Others	549	(7)
The Tactics of Social Democracy (Engels' Introduction to Marx's The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850)	556	(21)
Part IV. Society and Politics in the Nineteenth Century	577	(104)
Speech at the Anniversary of the People's Paper	577	(2)
Working-Class Manchester (from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844)	579	(7)
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850	586	(8)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte	594	(24)
The Civil War in France	618	(35)
On Imperialism in India	653	(12)
On Social Relations in Russia	665	(11)
Europocentric World Revolution (Marx to Engels; Engels to Karl Kautsky)	676	(5)
Part V. The Later Engels: Elaboration and Popularization	681	(88)
Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx	681	(2)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific	683	(35)
On the Division of Labour in Production (From Anti-Duhring)	718	(7)
On Morality (From Anti-Duhring)	725	(3)
Versus the Anarchists (Engels to Theodor Cuno)	728	(2)
On Authority	730	(4)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State	734	(26)
Letters on Historical Materialism	760	(9)
Bibliographic Note	769	(2)
Index	771