Major Works

• The Marx-Engels Reader

  - Marx, Karl. The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. 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… More

• Das Kapital (Capital) 1867 – 1894

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

Other Works

• Werke (MEW)

  - Werke (MEW). Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1956-1990.
  Secondary scholarly edition (German language)

• Gesamtausgabe: Werke, Artikel, Entwurfe (MEGA)

  - Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Gesamtausgabe: Werke, Artikel, Entwurfe (MEGA). Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1977ff.
  Collected Writings in German (standard scholarly edition)

• Marx: Later Political Writings

  - Marx, Karl. Marx: Later Political Writings. Terrell Carver, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• Collected Works (Standard English Scholarly Edition)

  - Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Collected Works. 50 volumes. Richard Dixon et al., trans. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975-2004.

• Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)

  - Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Program. Marxists.org.
  “First part of the paragraph: “Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.” Labor is not the source of all wealth. Nature is just as much the source of use values (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor,… More

Commentary

• “History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course”

  - Stalin, Joseph. “History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course.” 1939. Marxists Internet Archive. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/index.htm.
  Excerpt: ” THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CREATION OF A SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY IN RUSSIA (1883-1901)1. Abolition of Serfdom and the Development of Industrial Capitalism in Russia. Rise of the Modern Industrial Proletariat. First Steps of the Working-Class… More

• Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Manual

  - Kuusinen, O. W. Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Manual. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963.

• Essays on Marx and Russia

  - Croce, Benedetto, and Angelo A. De Gennaro. Essays on Marx and Russia. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1966.

• German Marxism and Russian Communism

  - Plamenatz, John. German Marxism and Russian Communism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.

• Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International

  - Derrida, Jacques. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. London: Routledge, 2006.
  From the Publisher: “Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of… More

• Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

  - Trotsky, Leon, and Henry Noel Brailsford. Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky. London: Verso, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the… More

• The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism

  - Levine, Andrew. The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx’s notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of… More