Karl Marx
Articles by and about Karl Marx, pioneering socialist thinker.
A manifesto of emancipation: Marx's "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" after 125 years
Paresh Chattopadhyay's investigation on Marx's little-read "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" arguing in favour of its strong emancipatory message and counter-poses it to Bolshevik-style state socialism.
Marx's "Marginal Notes" of 1875 or what he called in a letter (to Bracke, May 5, 1875), a "long scrap of paper," was a purely occasional text which its author felt compelled to compose, in order to underline what he thought to be the serious shortcomings in a workers' programme.
The place of the Communist Manifesto in the elaboration of the Marxian idea of the post-Capital
In the text that follows we argue that the basic Marxian ideas concerning the type of society supposed to follow the demise of capitalism are contained in the Manifesto in a condensed form.
Accordingly, the first section offers an outline of what type of society the Manifesto envisages for the future as well as the conditions necessary for its appearance while the second section relates these ideas to Marx's other texts.
Value and exploitation: Marx's problem and Skillman's solution
Chattopadhyay's discussion of problems in Marx's theorisation of value and exploitation and a solution posed by the academic Gilbert Skillman.
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Ficticious Splits within the International
The First International Working Men's Association
FICTITIOUS SPLITS IN THE INTERNATIONAL
by KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
written by Marx and Engels between January and March 5, 1872
Adopted by the General Council as a private circular. Published in Geneva 1872 as a French pamphlet called Les Pretendues Scissions dans l'Internationale. It marks the opening of Marx and Engels' preparations for confrontation with Bakuninist forces at upcoming IWMA congress at the Hague (September 1872).
The President of Mankind
The First International Working Men's Association
THE "PRESIDENT OF MANKIND"
Rheinische Zeitung, No. 102, second supplement, April 12, 1865 and the Berliner Reform, No. 88, supplement, April 13, 1865
Translated by Barrie Selman
Statement regarding the causes of the breach with Social Demokrat
The First International Working Men's Association
STATEMENT REGARDING THE CAUSES OF THE BREACH WITH THE SOCIAL-DEMOKRAT
Published in the Berliner Reform, No. 67, March 19, 1865 Translated by Barrie Selman Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org, April 1996
Into his postscript to the statement of resignation of Herren Rüstow and Herwegh (No. 31 of the Social-Demokrat) Herr von Schweitzer incorporates an article dispatched from London to the Neue Frankfurter Zeitung as proof of "how inconsistent and utterly unprincipled the conduct of Herren Marx and Engels is". He attempts to falsify the facts. Hence the following factual information.
Resolution of the London Conference on Working Class Political Action
RESOLUTION OF THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON WORKING-CLASS POLITICAL ACTION
as adopted by the London Conference of the International, September, 1871
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
A Warning - Journeymen Tailors in Europe
A warning from the International Working Men's Association about bosses' tactics with regard to journeymen tailors in 1866.
Letter to the Editor of the Stuttgart Beobachter
The First International Working Men's Association
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STUTTGART BEOBACHTER
First published in the Nordstern, No. 287, December 10, 1864 Printed according to the copy in Mrs. Marx's hand, corrected by the author and collated with the newspaper
The Nationalisation of the Land
The First International Working Men's Association
THE NATIONALISATION OF THE LAND.
A Paper read at the Manchester Section of the International Working Men's Association.
by KARL MARX
Written in March-April 1872 Published in The International Herald No. 11, June 15, 1872
The property in the soil is the original source of all wealth, and has become the great problem upon the solution of which depends the future of the working class.
