Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
"A spectre is haunting Europe..." Marx and Engels' hugely influential pamphlet, briefly summarising key communist ideas and the policies of the Communist League.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engel's MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
The Demands of the Communist Party in Germany - Marx and Engels
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 - The Poverty of Philosophy
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
COMMUNISM, REVOLUTION, AND A FREE POLAND
by KARL MARX
Speech delivered in French commemorating 2nd anniversary of Krakow Uprising Brussels, February 22, 1848
Gentlemen:
Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Program
"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.
Karl Marx - The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Also known as The Paris Manuscripts and the 1844 Manuscripts
Marx and Engels - Heroes of the Exile
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.
The Dutchess of Sutherland and Slavery - Karl Marx
Newspaper article written by Marx in 1853. It deals with Scottish
"clearings".
Marx thought this a very telling story, indeed. Much of the article would find itself reprinted in _Capital_, v.1 -- see part 8, chapter 27 -- over a decade later. THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND AND SLAVERY
London, Friday, January 21, 1853
During the present momentary slackness in political affairs, the address of the Stafford House Assembly of Ladies to their sisters in America upon the subject of Negro-Slavery, and the "affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of the women of the United States of America to their sisters, the women of England", upon white slavery, have proved a god-send to the press.
Karl Marx - The American Civil War
Karl Marx
The North American Civil War
London, October 20, 1861
Anti Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park - Karl Marx
ANTI-CHURCH MOVEMENT Demonstration in Hyde Park
by KARL MARX
written: June 25, 1855
It is an old and historically established maxim that obsolete social forces, nominally still in possession of all the attributes of power and continuing to vegetate long after the basis of their existence has rotted away, inasmuch as the heirs are quarrelling among themselves over the inheritance even before the obituary notice has been printed and the testament read -- that these forces once more summon all their strength before their agony of death, pass from the defensive to the offensive, challenge instead of giving way, and seek to draw the most extreme conclusions from premises which have not only been put in question but already condemned.
