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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Essays on Volumes I, II and III of Marx's 'Capital'

The essays in this collection address specific themes of Marx's 'Capital'. Although the essays can be read independently, they present…

Theories of surplus value Marx Plekhanov

Marx's Theories of surplus value - Georgi Plekhanov

The Russian translation of Part 1 of Theories of surplus value appeared in 1906. Part 2 (Ricardo) consisted of two volumes. The first volume …

Marx at the Margins

Marx at the Margins

Kevin Anderson, writing from a Marxist Humanist perspective, reexamines Marx's thinking about the world beyond Europe.

Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – ways of reading Marx’s theory - Ingo Elbe

October 21st 2013 article in Viewpoint magazine by Ingo Elbe on interpretations of Marx's work.

State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race…

Jacques Derrida - Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

"Specter" is the first noun one reads in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. But that's just the beginning. Once you start to notice them, there is no counting all the ghosts, spirits, specters and spooks that crowd Marx's text. If they are to count for something, however, one must question the spectropoetics that Marx allowed to invade his discourse. In Specters of Marx, Derrida undertakes this task within the…

The Communist League: Martin Hundt

History of the origins of the Communist League and its actions and influence during the 1848 revolutions in the German states and Europe.

Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism - Peter Hudis

In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation.

Later Political Writings - Karl Marx (Cambridge University Press translations)

Brings together translations of Marx's most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. The works are presented here complete, according to the first editions or the earliest manuscript state, and include the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Preface of 1859 to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, The Civil War in France, and the little-known Notes on Adolph Wagner. More than most…

Marx 2000 - Robert Kurz

Article by Robert Kurz, from 1st Feb 1999, also published as a Krisis pamphlet.

What Marx should have said to Kropotkin - Adam Buick

The following is the transcript of a talk given by Adam Buick to the 1994 'Socialist Party of Great Britain Summer School', which was held that…

Karl Marx: the story of his life - Franz Mehring

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first…