The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition)

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1978-03-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix(6)
Chronology: The Lives of Marx and Engels xv(4)
Introduction xix(20)
Note on Texts and Terminology xxxix
Part I. The Early Marx 3(200)
Marx on the History of His Opinions (Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)
3(4)
Discovering Hegel (Marx to his father)
7(2)
To Make the World Philosophical (from Marx's doctoral dissertation)
9(3)
For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (Marx to Arnold Ruge)
12(4)
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
16(10)
On the Jewish Question
26(27)
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction
53(13)
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
66(60)
Critical Marginal Notes on the Article "The King of Prussia and Social Reform"
126(7)
Alienation and Social Classes (from The Holy Family)
133(3)
Society and Economy in History (Marx to P.V. Annenkov)
136(7)
Theses on Feuerbach
143(3)
The German Ideology: Part I
146(57)
Part II. The Critique of Capitalism 203(266)
Wage Labour and Capital
203(15)
The Coming Unheaval (From The Poverty of Philosophy)
218(2)
Class Struggle and Mode of Production (Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer)
220(1)
The Grundrisse
221(73)
Capital, Volume One
294(145)
Capital, Volume Three
439(4)
Crisis Theory (from Theories of Surplus Value)
443(26)
Part III. Revolutionary Program and Strategy 469(108)
Manifesto of the Communist Party
469(32)
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
501(11)
Inaugural Address of the Working Men's International Association
512(8)
Economics and Politics in the Labor Movement (Marx to F. Bolte)
520(1)
Against Personality Cults (Marx to W. Blos)
521(1)
The Possibility of Non-Violent Revolution (the Amsterdam speech)
522(3)
Critique of the Gotha Program
525(17)
After the Revolution: Marx Debates Bakunin
542(7)
Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke, and Others
549(7)
The Tactics of Social Democracy (Engels' Introduction to Marx's The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850)
556(21)
Part IV. Society and Politics in the Nineteenth Century 577(104)
Speech at the Anniversary of the People's Paper
577(2)
Working-Class Manchester (from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844)
579(7)
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850
586(8)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
594(24)
The Civil War in France
618(35)
On Imperialism in India
653(12)
On Social Relations in Russia
665(11)
Europocentric World Revolution (Marx to Engels; Engels to Karl Kautsky)
676(5)
Part V. The Later Engels: Elaboration and Popularization 681(88)
Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx
681(2)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
683(35)
On the Division of Labour in Production (From Anti-Duhring)
718(7)
On Morality (From Anti-Duhring)
725(3)
Versus the Anarchists (Engels to Theodor Cuno)
728(2)
On Authority
730(4)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
734(26)
Letters on Historical Materialism
760(9)
Bibliographic Note 769(2)
Index 771

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