Karl Marx

Prefaces to different editions of the Communist Manifesto. While often ignored, the 1872 preface is notable in that it explicitly revises Marx and Engel's position on a state-led transition to socialism following the 1871 Paris Commune. The 1882 preface to the Russian Edition is also notable due to its emphasis on the potential for the Russian Obschina to be the basis for communism (i.e. without a transition from…

The Manifesto of the Communist Party Communist Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League…

Marx spoke of the commodity - now the commodity speaks of Marx (and itself). PDF of illustrated quotations from 'Capital'. Update: Images…

Marx responds to Bakunin's criticisms of Marx and Marxism. Marx's comments were written at the end of 1874 as he read Bakunin's book as part of his efforts to learn Russian and to study Russian society.

Article about political differences between Bakunin and Marx, which correlated to the anarchist-Marxist split in the First International. The author is biased in favour of Marx's views, but fails to give credit for Bakunin's influence on Marx (such as forcing him to clarify his views on the state) or those instances where Bakunin had more insight than Marx (such as on the evolution and counter-revolutionary nature…

Reflecting on 150 years of communist theory and practice within capitalism.

During the latter part of 1874 Marx copied into a notebook, in the Russian, extensive extracts from…

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