Karl Marx

The 1872 German Edition

While we do not agree with all of it we reproduce it for reference, and readers should bear in mind that it was commissioned propaganda for the League.

Introduction

First printed in Black & Red No. 5 January 1969. Reprinted as a fold-out concertina leaflet by Black & Red, Detroit, 1973.

From Volume 24 of 'Marx & Engels - Collected Works'; Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1989.

“Again, I’m not enough of a Marx scholar to pretend to an authoritative judgement. My impression, for what it is worth, is that the early Marx was very much a figure of the late Enlightenment, and the later Marx was a highly authoritarian activist, and a critical analyst of capitalism, who had little to say about socialist alternatives. But those are impressions.” Noam Chomsky.

Marx spoke of the commodity - now the commodity speaks of Marx... Quotes from Marx's Capital are given an unusual setting.

Conspectus of Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy[Extract]

Karl Marx's Speech ON THE QUESTION OF FREE TRADE

On January 9, 1848, Marx spoke before the Democratic Association of Brussels about the topical question of free trade.

At the end of 1847, Brussels hosted a "Free Trade Congress" -- which was intended to further the general Free Trade campaign English manufacturers were conducting. In 1846, the English bourgeoisie repealed England's Corn Laws and were now ready to take their cause abroad.

Marx requested a slot to speak, but the Congress closed before his name came up on the lists. Instead, he delivered his speech to the Democratic Association, of which he was a vice-president. His speech is presented below.

INTERVIEW WITH KARL MARX

by H.

Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879.

Interview with Karl Marx Head of L'Internationale

Revolt of Labour Against Capital -- the Two Faces of L'Internationale-- Transformation of Society -- Its Progress in the United States

by R. Landor

Karl Marx and Frederick Engel's MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

The Demands of the Communist Party in Germany

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels [1]

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

1. The whole of Germany shall be declared a single and indivisible republic.
2. Every German over twenty-one years of age shall be able to vote and be elected, provided he has no criminal record.

Karl Marx's THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY

This 1847 book by Karl Marx was a direct answer to J. P. Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty.

COMMUNISM, REVOLUTION, AND A FREE POLAND

by KARL MARX

Speech delivered in French commemorating 2nd anniversary of Krakow Uprising Brussels, February 22, 1848

Gentlemen:

"Critique of the Gotha Programme"

MARGINAL NOTES TO THE PROGRAM OF THE GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY

by KARL MARX

Written April-May 1875, Marx sent the critique to Wilhelm Bracke (with an accompanying cover letter, included at the end) asking it be submitted to the Social-Democratic Workers' party leaders. They were soon to meet the Lassalle-founded General Association of German Workers at Gotha, May 22-27, 1875. This Congress would unite the groups into the Socialist Labor party, later the powerful German Social-Democratic party.

FOR POLAND

Speeches by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as reported by Friedrich Engels. 24 March, 1875

Karl Marx

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Also known as The Paris Manuscripts and the 1844 Manuscripts

Critical Notes on the Article

"The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian"[1]

KARL MARX

Vorwarts!

August 7 1844

An article has appeared in the 60th issue of the Vorwarts! with the "The King of Prussia and Social Reform" and it is signed by "A Prussian".

HEROES OF THE EXILE

KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS

Written between May and June 1852. First published in 1930 by Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in Vol. 5 of the Marx-Engels Archive. This edition was in Russian translation; the first edition of the German original had to wait for the German Werke Vol. 8, of 1960.

Not often one can use a word like hilarious with Karl and Fred (though Fred was usually a much more lively and rapid writer), but Heroes of the Exile can be very funny. Wasn't published in his lifetime, though he intended it to be... (that is, it wasn't an "unfinished work" in the sense the Economic and Philsophical Manuscripts were, say). Written in 1852.