First published in 1859, this work by Karl Marx was a preparation for the writing of Capital. In the preface Marx gives a brilliant exposition of the method of historical materialism. Learn More

English translation of the first edition of Marx's Capital, Volume I, Chapter I, The Commodity. Learn More

This book contains an abridgement of the first volume of Marx's Capital prepared by Otto Rühle at Trotsky's request shortly before his assassination in 1940. Learn More

The manifesto, written in the months prior to the revolutionary wave of 1848 and distributed throughout Europe, is the first definitive statement of the methods and aims of the Communist movement. It introduces the materialist conception of history and of the class struggle, explaining how bourgeois society, having sprung up amid the formation of a world market, simplifies and intensifies class antagonisms by creating the proletariat, a class which has no property aside from its own ability to labor. Learn More

The Critique of the Gotha Program contains the text of a letter written by Karl Marx in 1875 to his supporters in Germany, the Eisenach faction of the social democratic movement, which was soon to merge with the supporters of Ferdinand Lasalle. Learn More

This book provides an overview of the economic, philosophic and political teachings of the founders of scientific socialism. The author, David Riazanov, was an old Bolshevik who headed the Marx Engels Institute in the Soviet Union. He traces the development of their ideas in the context of their lives and their collaboration, which spanned nearly four decades. Learn More

Frederick Engels wrote this book in 1884 basing his analysis on notes left behind by Marx on the work of American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Engels added his own material from his own research on the ancient societies of the Greeks, Romans, Celts and Germans.
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These two essays by Marx serve as an introduction to his economic teachings. The first is based on a series of lectures by Marx to the German Workingmen's Club of Brussels in 1847. The second is an address Marx gave in 1865. This edition contains an introduction written by Frederick Engels in 1891. Learn More

This small book compactly outlines the economic, historical and philosophical teachings of marxism. It originally formed part of a larger volume, "Anti_Dühring", written by Engels, Marx's closest collaborator, as a reply to an attack on their views by a German professor. Learn More