Karl Marx
Articles by and about Karl Marx, pioneering socialist thinker.
Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DELEGATES OF THE PROVISIONAL GENERAL COUNCIL.
THE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS
by KARL MARX
Written at the end of August 1866 First published in Der Vorbote Nos. 10 and 11, October and November 1866 and The International Courier Nos. 6/7, February 20, and Nos. 8/10, March 13, 1867
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Organisation of the International Association
2. International combination of efforts, by the agency of the association, in the struggle between labour and capital
3. Limitation of the working day
4. Juvenile and children's labour (both sexes)
5. Co-operative labour
6. Trades' unions. Their past, present and future
7. Direct and indirect taxation
8. International credit
9. Polish question
10. Armies
11. Religious question
Report to the General Council of the IWMA on the Right of Inheritance
REPORT OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL ON THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE
Written by Karl Marx on August 2 and 3, 1869 Endorsed by General Council of IWMA on August 3, 1869
1. The right of inheritance is only of social import insofar as it leaves to the heir the power which the deceased wielded during his lifetime -- viz., the power of transferring to himself, by means of his property, the produce of other people's labor. For instance, land gives the living proprietor the power to transfer to himself, under the name of rent, without any equivalent, the produce of other people's labor. Capital gives him the power to do he same under the name of profit and interest. The property in public funds gives him the power to live without labor upon other people's labor, etc.
The Right of Inheritance
The First International Working Men's Association
THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE
From the General Council minutes of July 20, 1869, as taken by George Eccarius.
Citizen Marx opened the discussion on the question: The Right of Inheritance.
On Proudhon
The First International Working Men's Association
LETTER TO J. B. SCHWEITZER FROM KARL MARX
"ON PROUDHON"
First published in Der Social-Demokrat, Nos. 16, 17 and 18, February 1, 3 and 5, 1865
London, January 24, 1865
Dear Sir.
Yesterday I received a letter in which you demand from me a detailed judgment of Proudhon. Lack of time prevents me from fulfilling your desire. Added to which I have none of his works to hand. However, in order to assure you of my good will I will quickly jot down a brief outline. You can then complete it, add to it or cut it -- in short do anything you like with it. [The editors of Der Social-Demokrat supplied a footnote here: "We found it better to print the letter without any changes."]
Poland and the Russian Menace
The First International Working Men's Association
POLAND AND THE RUSSIAN MENACE
by KARL MARX
Speech by Marx to a general meeting commemorating the 4th anniversary of the Polish Uprising of 1863.
held at Cambridge Hall, London, January 22, 1867
Polemics Against Peter Fox
The First International Working Men's Association
DRAFT FOR A SPEECH ON FRANCE'S HISTORICAL ATTITUDE TO POLAND
(POLEMICS AGAINST PETER FOX)
Written in December 1864 First published in K. Marx, Manuskripte über die polnische Frage, S.-Gravenhage,1961
Translated for the Internet by director@marx.org
BACKGROUND
Mr. Fox has rolled up a rather phantastic picture of the foreign policy of the French Ancient Regime. According to his view, France allied herself with Sweden, Poland, and Turkey in order to protect Europe from Russia. The truth is that France contracted those alliances in the 16th and 17th centuries, at a time when Poland was still a powerful state and when Russia, in the modern sense of the word, did not yet exist.
A Correction
The First International Working Men's Association
A CORRECTION
First published in Die Neue Zeit, Bd. 2, No. 3, 1901
I request the esteemed Editorial Board of the Zeitung für Norddeutschland to print the following correction:
Your obedient servant,
Karl Marx
The First International Working Men's Association TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ZEITUNG FüR NORDDEUTSCHLAND
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON
On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship. A year later, Louis Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III.
Introduction to Capital - Karl Korsch
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract: owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life.
The Civil War in France - Karl Marx
Karl Marx's contemporary account of the Paris Commune, placing it in context fo the wider events in France at the time. The Paris Commune significantly changed Marx's ideas about the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", and his support for it's organisation structures suggests a different trajectory of revolutionary organisation to the "Marxist" revolutions in the 20th Century.
