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

• 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

Commentary

• The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital

  - Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital. London: NLB, 1975.

• 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

• “Marx on Self-Consciousness, the City and the Gods”

  - Bartky, Elliot. “Marx on Self-Consciousness, the City and the Gods.” Interpretation, Vol. 19 (1991) pp. 3-28.

• From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx

  - Hook, Sidney. From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the Intellectual Development of Karl Marx. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
  From the Publisher: “In this brilliant work, first published in 1936, Sydney Hook seeks to resolve one of the classic problems of European intellectual history: how the political radicalism and philosophical materialism of Karl Marx issued from the… More

• The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

  - Löwy, Michael. The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005.
  From the Publisher: ““This book is brilliant, incisive, honest and deserves to be read with attention. It is an important event in the Marxist theoretical production.” —Politique Hebdo “A remarkable essay, whose merit is not only theoretical,… More

• The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing

  - Leopold, David. The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important study of Marx’s early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of a powerful and imaginative intellect wrestling with complex and significant issues, but… 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

• “Review of The Young Karl Marx, by David Leopold”

  - Schechter, Benli M. “Review of The Young Karl Marx, by David Leopold.” Interpretation, Vol. 37 (2009), pp. 105-114.
  Excerpt: ” Remarkably, the greatest critiques of Marxism surfaced not from among those in the right wing of the ideological spectrum, but from among those in its left wing—that is, from those even further out than today’s mainstream of Marxism. This… More