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

Other Works

• Early Writings of Karl Marx

  - Marx, Karl. Early Writings of Karl Marx. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton, trans. London: Penguin Books, 1992.

• The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy (1845)

  - Marx, Karl. The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998.
  Excerpt: “As we hear from German ideologists, Germany has in the last few years gone through an unparalleled revolution. The decomposition of the Hegelian philosophy, which began with Strauss, has developed into a universal ferment into which all the… More

• Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)

  - Marx, Karl. Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Marxists.org.
  “For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech… More

• Theses on Feuerbach (1845)

  - Marx, Karl. Theses on Feuerbach. Marxists.org.
  Excerpt: “The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object[Objekts], or of contemplation [Anschauung],… More

Commentary

• From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in 19th Century Thought

  - Lowith, Karl. From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in 19th Century Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964
  From the Publisher: “Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, Löwith discusses how Hegel’s students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaard, interpreted—-or reinterpreted—-their master’s thought,… More

• The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx

  - Avineri, Shlomo. The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. London: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  From the Publisher: “Ever since the discovery of Marx’s Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx’s intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the ‘young’ Marx, who was considered to be… 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