Karl Marx

Content by and about Karl Marx (1818-1883), a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, and communist. He is best known for his theories about capitalism, and for co-authoring The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

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A Warning - Karl Marx

Article by Marx, writing on behalf of the International, warning German workers to not be strikebreakers during a strike of Edinburgh tailors.

Letter to the Editor of the Stuttgart Beobachter

The Nationalisation of the Land

Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council

Report to the General Council of the IWMA on the Right of Inheritance

The Right of Inheritance

On Proudhon

Poland and the Russian Menace

Polemics Against Peter Fox

A draft for a speech by Karl Marx in 1864.

A Correction

Louis Bonaparte

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon

Karl Marx's 1852 treatise on the dictatorship of Louis Bonaparte, and his analysis of the capitalist state.

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…