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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Critique of the Gotha Programme
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Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
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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 It contains publications by Marx and Engels released during their lifetimes, many unpublished manuscripts of Marx's economic writings, and extensive correspondence.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 |
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