Karl Marx: Selected Writings, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Karl Marx, David McLellan, ed.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 704
• Edition: Second Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical, and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of Marx's life, allowing readers to trace the development of his thought from his early years as a student and political journalist in Germany up through the final letters he wrote in the early 1880s. A fully updated editorial introduction and bibliography has been included for each extract in this new edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Note to Second Edition......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
I The Early Writings 1837–1844
......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1 Letter to his Father
......Page 21
2
Doctoral Thesis......Page 27
3 Articles for the Rheinische Zeitung
......Page 34
4 Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’
......Page 44
5 A Correspondence of 1843
......Page 55
6 On the Jewish Question
......Page 58
7 Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction
......Page 83
8 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
......Page 95
9 Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach
......Page 134
10 On James Mill
......Page 136
11 Critical Remarks on the Article: ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform’
......Page 146
II The Materialist Conception of History 1844–1847
......Page 151
Introduction......Page 153
12
The Holy Family......Page 157
13 Theses on Feuerbach
......Page 183
14
The German Ideology......Page 187
15
Letter to Annenkov......Page 221
16
The Poverty of Philosophy......Page 224
17
Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality......Page 246
III 1848 and After
......Page 249
Introduction......Page 251
18
The Communist Manifesto......Page 257
19
Wage-Labour and Capital......Page 285
20
Speech on Free Trade......Page 307
21
Articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung......Page 309
22
Address to the Communist League......Page 315
23
The Class Struggles in France......Page 325
24 Speech to the Central Committee of the
Communist League......Page 338
25
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte......Page 341
26
Journalism of the 1850s......Page 368
27 Speech on the Anniversary of the People’s
Paper......Page 380
28
Letters 1848–1857......Page 382
IV The ‘Economics’
1857–1867......Page 385
Introduction......Page 387
29
Grundrisse......Page 391
30
Preface to A Critique of Political Economy......Page 436
31
Theories of Surplus Value......Page 441
32
Capital......Page 464
33 Results of the Immediate Process of
Production......Page 559
34 Letters 1858–1868
......Page 574
V Later Political Writings
1864–1882......Page 581
Introduction......Page 583
35 Inaugural Address to the First International
......Page 587
36 On Trade Unions
......Page 595
38 Preface to the Second German Edition of the Communist Manifesto
......Page 616
39
On Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy......Page 618
40
Critique of the Gotha Programme......Page 622
41
Letter to Mikhailovsky......Page 629
42
Circular Letter......Page 632
43
Letter to Vera Sassoulitch......Page 635
44
Comments on Adolph Wagner......Page 641
45 Preface to the Russian Edition of the
Communist Manifesto......Page 643
46 Letters 1863–1881
......Page 645
Chronological Table
......Page 657
Bibliography......Page 659
Index of Names
......Page 677
Index of Subjects......Page 685