The Marx-Engels Reader

Marx, Karl. The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. Robert C. Tucker, ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.

Tucker’s collection remains the best single-volume introduction to Marx’s thought. It provides complete versions of key texts such as the anti-Semitic but revealing On the Jewish Question, The Communist Manifesto, as well as excerpts of longer works such as Das Kapital.

Das Kapital (Capital) 1867 – 1894

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1. Ben Fowkes, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ———. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 2. David Fernbach, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1992. ———. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 3. David Fernbach, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1992.

Excerpt: The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. A commodity is, in the… More