Major Works

• 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

• Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (1857)

  - Marx, Karl. Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Martin Nicolaus, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1993.
  Excerpt: “I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world market. The economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois… More

• 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.

• The Communist Manifesto: With Seven Rare Prefaces (1848)

  - Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto: With Seven Rare Prefaces. Samuel Moore, trans. World Library Classics, 2009.
  Excerpt: “The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to… More

• 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

• Stalin Versus Marx: the Stalinist Historical Doctrine

  - Mehnert, Klaus. Stalin Versus Marx: the Stalinist Historical Doctrine. London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1952.

• Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Manual

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

• History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

  - Lukács, György. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.
  “This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of… More

• Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

  - Kolakowski, Leszek, and P. S Falla. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main… More