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

Commentary

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

  - Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. London; New York: Penguin Classics, 2010.
  Excerpt: “The following chapters are, in a sense, the execution of a bequest. No less a man than Karl Marx had made it one of his future tasks to present the results of Morgan’s researches in the light of the conclusions of his own — within certain… More