Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Description

This edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's most important pieces alongside a fully revised and updated bibliography and editorial commentary on each document. New editorial introductions to each section of the book provide the reader with the background and context of Marx's writing in each period. Essential reading for anyone wishing for a detailed overview of Marx's political philosophy.

• Contains a comprehensive selection of carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's writings
• Chronologically arranged documents allow the reader to trace the development of Marx's thought
• Fully updated editorial introduction and bibliography supplied for each extract
• Provides an unparalleled overview of Marx's political thought
• Puts Marx's writings into biographical and historical context

About the Author(s)

Karl Marx

Edited by David McLellan, Visiting Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He was previously Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: The Early Writings 1837-1844
Editorial Introduction
1:Letter to his Father
2:Doctoral Thesis
3:Articles for the Rheinische Zeitung
4:Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
5:A Correspondence of 1843
6:On the Jewish Question
7:Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
8:Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
9:Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach
10:On James Mill
11:Critical Remarks on the Article: 'The King of Prussia and Social Reform'
Part Two: The Materialist Conception of History 1844-1847
Editorial Introduction
12:The Holy Family
13:Theses on Feuerbach
14:The German Ideology
15:Letter to Annenkov
16:The Poverty of Philosophy
17:Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality
Part Three: 1848 and After
Editorial Introduction
18:The Communist Manifesto
19:Wage Labour and Capital
20:Speech on Free Trade
21:Articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
22:Address to the Communist League
23:The Class Struggle in France
24:Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League
25:The Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte
26:Journalism of the 1850s
27:Speech on the Anniversary of the People's Paper
28:Letters 1848-1857
Part Four: The 'Economics' 1857-1867
Editorial Introduction
29:Grundrisse
30:Preface to a Critique of Political Economy
31:Theories of Surplus Value
32:Capital
A. From Volume One
B. From Volume Three
33:Results of the Immediate Process of Production
34:Letters 1858-1868
Part Five: Later Political Writings 1864-1882
Editorial Introduction
35:Inaugural Address to the First International
36:On Trade Unions
37:The Civil War in France
38:Preface to the Second German Edition of the Communist Manifesto
39:On Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy
40:Critique of the Gotha Programme
41:Letter to Mikhailovsky
42:Circular Letter
43:Letter to Vera Sassoulitch
44:Comments on Adolph Wagner
45:Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto
46:Letters 1863-1881
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects