Foundation Sources of Marxism - Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto - The Class Struggle in France - Wage Labour and Capital
The Civil War in France - A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Grundisse)
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| “ | The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. | ” |
Included:Manifesto of the Communist PartyThe present English edition of the Manifesto of tbe Communist Party is a reproduction of the translation made by Samuel Moore in 1888 from the original German text of 1848 and edited by Frederick Engels. Included in the present text are Engels's annotations for the English edition of 1888 and the German edition of 1890 as well as all the authors' prefaces to the various editions.
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy(GRUNDRISSE DER KRITIK DER POLITISCHEN ÖKONOMIE)
The Grundrisse (German language "Sketches") is a lengthy work by the German philosopher Karl Marx, completed in 1858. However, as it existed primarily as a collection of unedited notes, the work remained unpublished until 1941. The work is very wide-ranging in subject matter and covers all six sections of Marx's economics (of which only one, Das Kapital, ever reached a final form). The Grundrisse is often described as the rough draft to Capital, although there is considerable disagreement about the exact relationship between the two texts, particularly around the issue of methodology.
The Grundrisse is one of the central works of Marx, due to its wide range of topics covered and its incorporation of themes from some of Marx's earlier works. The diverse subjects it covers include production, distribution, exchange, alienation, value, labor, capitalism, the rise of technology and automation, pre-capitalist forms of social organization, and the preconditions for a communist revolution.
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital
(published 1867). Soviet Marxologists released several never-before-seen Marx/Engels works in the 1930s. Most were early works -- like the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts -- but the Grundrisse stood alone as issuing forth from the most intense period of Marx's decade-long, in-depth study of economics. It is an extremely rich and thought-provoking work, showing signs of humanism and the influence of Hegelian dialectic method. Do note, though, Marx did not intend it for publication as is, so it can be stylistically very rough in places.
The Class Struggle in FranceThe Class Struggle in France actually appeared as a series of articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung between December 1849 and November 1850. Engels would "repackage" them into a more complete book in 1895, a dozen years after Marx's passing. In highlighting the importance of this work in the development of Marx's thought, Engels wrote: "The work here republished was Marx's first attempt to explain a section of contemporary history by means of his materialist conception, on the basis of the given economic situation. In the Communist Manifesto, the theory was applied in broad outline to the whole of modern history... Here, on the other hand, the question was to demonstrate the inner causal connection in the course of a development which extended over some years... to trace political events back to effects of what were, in the final analysis, economic causes."
Wage, Labour and CapitalWhat are wages?
By what is the price of a commodity determined?
By what are wages determined?
The nature and growth of capital; Relation of wage-labor to capital; The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit...
The interests of capital and wage-labor are diametrically opposed...
Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class, the middle class and the working class...
This pamphlet first appeared in the form of a series of leading articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, beginning on April 4th, 1849. The text is made up of from lectures delivered by Marx before the German Workingmen's Club of Brussels in 1847. The series was never completed. The promise "to be continued", at the end of the editorial in Number 269 of the newspaper, remained unfulfilled in consequence of the precipitous events of that time: the invasion of Hungary by the Russians [Tsarist troops invaded hungary in 1849 to keep the Austrian Hapsburg dynasty in power], and the uprisings in Dresden, Iserlohn, Elberfeld, the Palatinate, and in Baden [Spontaneous uprisings in Germany in May-July 1849, supporting the Imperial Constituion which were crushed in mid-July], which led to the suppression of the paper on May 19th, 1849. And among the papers left by Marx no manuscript of any continuation of these articles has been found.
The Civil War in FranceWritten by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Communards and their historical experience to learn from. The book was widely circulated by 1872 it was translated into several languages and published throughout Europe and the United States. The first address was delivered on July 23rd, 1870, five days after the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war. The second address, delivered on September 9, 1870, gave a historical overview of the events a week after the army of Bonaparte was defeated. The third address, delivered on May 30, 1870, two days after the defeat of the Paris Commune, detailed the significance and the underlining causes of the first workers government ever created.
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