Karl Marx

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The Communist Manifesto was first, published on February 21, 1848, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ruling class of bourgeoisie and to eventually, bring about a classless...

Written in 1844 as a series of notes, Marx's posthumously published critiques on the conditions of modern industrialist societies forms the foundation of the author's denunciation of capitalism. Combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, it is a profound examination of the human condition rooted in a philosophy of economics. In this concise treatise, Marx presents an indictment of capitalism and its threat to the working man, his...

This pioneering 1859 deconstruction of capitalism and classical economics includes many of the ideas later incorporated into Marx's masterwork, Das Kapital. The preface introduces the author's economic theory of history: the idea that the way goods and services are produced determines the political and ideological nature of society.

Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, Capital is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production and the class struggles embedded within it. Capital was written while Marx was exiled in England, and many of the...

Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechts-Philosophie ist eine Schrift von Karl Marx aus den Jahren 1843 und 1844. Sie besteht aus einer von März bis August 1843 verfassten Kritik des Hegelschen Staatsrechts, die 1927 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde, und einer Ende 1843 bis Januar 1844 entstandenen Einleitung, die im Jahr 1844 erschien. Ersterer Text ist auch als Kreuznacher Manuskript bekannt. Dieser berühmte Text erschien 1844 in den Deutsch-Französischen...

Whenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today? Do we still have something to gain from reading the great man's thoughts about economic structures? To put this question another way - if Marx was wrong, in the end, about what communism would look like, then why do we still read his writings? One way to answer this is by looking at the similarities between Marx's world and ours. The...

Lohn, Preis und Profit ist die Bezeichnung eines Vortragsmanuskripts von Karl Marx aus dem Jahre 1865. Es beinhaltet die marxsche Mehrwerttheorie in groben Zügen, wie sie im Kapital von 1867 ausführlich dargestellt ist. Marx stellt in der Rede den Zusammenhang von Warenpreis und Lohnzahlungen infrage. Warenpreise würden sich nach dem Gesetz von Angebot und Nachfrage verhalten; Lohnzahlungen seien auf die Verhandlungen zwischen Arbeitern und Kapitalisten...

Perhaps one of the most consequential works of all time, "Capital" is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, Marx would only see the first volume published in his lifetime with two more published posthumously by Friedrich Engels, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production...