Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Overview

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are the primary theoreticians of Marxism, Communism and Scientific Socialism.

Selected Works

The Communist Manifesto

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The Communist Manifesto

Critique of the Gotha Programme

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Critique of the Gotha Programme

Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

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Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

Collected Works

Marx/Engels Collected Works (also known as MECW) is the largest existing collection of English translations of many of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains publications by Marx and Engels released during their lifetimes, many unpublished manuscripts of Marx's economic writings, and extensive correspondence. The Collected Works, 50 volumes, was compiled and issued from 1975 to 2004 by Progress Publishers (1931, Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (1936, London) and International Publishers (1924, New York City).

Volume	Marx	Engels	Period	Pub. Date	Major Contents
≣ 1	✔	✘	1835-1843	1975	Early writings of Marx, including doctoral dissertation The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
≣ 2	✘	✔	1838-1842	1975	Early writings of Engels
≣ 3	✔	✔	1843-1844	1975	Early writings of both, including the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
≣ 4	✔	✔	1844-1845	1975	The Holy Family, The Condition of the Working Class in England
≣ 5	✔	✔	1845-1847	1976	The German Ideology, Theses on Feuerbach
≣ 6	✔	✔	1845-1848	1976	The Communist Manifesto, The Poverty of Philosophy, Principles of Communism
≣ 7	✔	✔	1848	1977	Articles for Neue Rheinische Zeitung
≣ 8	✔	✔	1848-1849	1977
≣ 9	✔	✔	1849	1977
≣10	✔	✔	1849-1851	1978	The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850, The Peasant War in Germany
≣11	✔	✔	1851-1853	1979	The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
≣12	✔	✔	1853-1854	1979	Newspaper articles concerning global politics and other writings, including Collection:The Civil War in the United States
≣13	✔	✔	1854-1855	1980
≣14	✔	✔	1855-1856	1980
≣15	✔	✔	1856-1858	1986
≣16	✔	✔	1858-1860	1980
≣17	✔	✔	1859-1860	1981
≣18	✔	✔	1857-1862	1982
≣19	✔	✔	1861-1864	1984
≣20	✔	✔	1864-1868	1985	Articles and writings concerning the First International, Value, Price and Profit (V. 20)
≣21	✔	✔	1867-1870	1985
≣22	✔	✔	1870-1871	1986
≣23	✔	✔	1871-1874	1988
≣24	✔	✔	1874-1883	1989	Critique of the Gotha Program, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
≣25	✘	✔	—	1987	Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature
≣26	✘	✔	1882-1889	1990	The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
≣27	✘	✔	1890-1895	1990	Late political writings of Engels
≣28	✔	✘	1857-1861	1986	Grundrisse, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
≣29	✔	✘	1857-1861	1987
≣30	✔	✘	1861-1863	1988	Economic Manuscripts of 1861–1863, which includes Theories of Surplus Value
≣31	✔	✘	1861-1863	1989
≣32	✔	✘	1861-1863	1989
≣33	✔	✘	1861-1863	1991
≣34	✔	✘	1861-1864	1994
≣35	✔	✘	—	1996	Capital, Volume I
≣36	✔	✘	—	1997	Capital, Volume II
≣37	✔	✘	—	1998	Capital, Volume III
≣38	✔	✔	1844-1851	1982	Letters
≣39	✔	✔	1852-1855	1983
≣40	✔	✔	1856-1859	1983
≣41	✔	✔	1860-1864	1985
≣42	✔	✔	1864-1868	1987
≣43	✔	✔	1868-1870	1988
≣44	✔	✔	1870-1873	1989
≣45	✔	✔	1874-1879	1991
≣46	✔	✔	1880-1883	1992
≣47	✘	✔	1883-1886	1995
≣48	✘	✔	1887-1890	2001
≣49	✘	✔	1890-1892	2001
≣50	✘	✔	1892-1895	2004