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Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy

Engels' & Marx's writing are represented here in full variety, also including little-known letters & essays.

Manifesto of the Communist Party/Marx & Engels

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Parts: A contribution to the critique of political economy/Marx

On historical materialism/Engels

Socialism: Utopian & scientific/Engels

Critique of the Gotha Program/Marx

Parts: Capital: A critique of political economy/Marx

On the history of early Christianity/Engels

L. Feuerbach & the end of classical German philosophy/Engels

Theses on Feuerbach/Marx

Parts: The German ideology/Marx & Engels

Parts: The Communism of the paper Rheinischer beobachter/Marx Parts: Toward the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of right/Marx

Parts: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in science/Engels

Parts: The class struggles in France 1848-50/Marx

Parts: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte/Marx

Parts: The Civil War in France/Marx

Part: Origin of the family, private property & the state/Engels

Letters on historical materialism/Engels

Parts: The peasant war in Germany/Engels

Letters & essays on political sociology/Marx & Engels

Letters: Russia's pattern of development. The Russian Marxists & Marxist texts. Anarchism & conspiratorial ethics. English Fabian socialism. Auguste Comte. Socialist imperialism in Java. Defence of progressive imperialism in Algeria. Socialist colonial policy. Sociology of the Bible. Oriental cities. Social classes in America. Why there is no large Socialist party in America

Essays: History of the Communist League. Excerpt from On social conditions in Russia. The British rule in India. On authority. Capital punishment. The labor movement in the US

Setting
Germany
Audience
adult
Length
long · 497 pages

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