Roland Boer, Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology

Roland Boer, Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology

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Criticism of Earth thoroughly reassesses Marx and Engels's engagement with theology, analyzing their collected works for discussions of spiritual matters and the persistence of biblical allusions. What emerges is a continued interest that is maintained throughout their lives, from Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, until the very end with Engels's treatise on the revolutionary origins of early Christianity.

Tristram Hunt, The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist

Tristram Hunt, The Frock-coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist

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"Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race. He was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write Das Kapital. Tristram Hunt relishes the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy." 

Tristram Hunt, Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

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From The Economist:

"Engels was an enigma. Gifted, energetic and fascinated by political ideas, he was nevertheless ready to play second fiddle to Marx. “Marx was a genius; we others were at best talented,” he declared after his friend's death. Mr Hunt does a brilliant job of setting the two men's endeavours in the context of the political, social and philosophical currents at the time. It makes for a complex story that can be hard to follow but is well worth persevering with."  

Lee Baxandall, Stefan Morawski (eds.): Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings (1973)

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 A concise compilation of texts divided into nine sections with a judicious introductory essay by Morawski.

Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate, Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide

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From Marx & Philosophy Society,

"Focusing on Marxist thought in particular, Introducing Marxism gives an overview of the historical development of Marxism, also using the words and ideas of important thinkers. To establish the importance of Marx, the book begins with the publication of one his most well-known works – The Communist Manifesto, stating that “the Manifesto left an indelible mark on human progress and still today forms the basis for a system of political beliefs that motivates millions.” (4) Following a brief account of Marx’s life, which highlights his early passion for philosophy, his life as a political agitator, and the importance of his friendship with Friedrich Engels, Introducing Marxism looks at Marx’s philosophical, economic, and political theories, including dialectical materialism, surplus value, and class struggle."

David Riazanov, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: An Introduction to Their Lives and Work

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Marx & Engels Collected Works (50 Volumes)

Marx & Engels Collected Works (50 Volumes)

This English edition will include the works and letters already contained in the main volumes of the above-mentioned second Russian and German editions as well as in the supplementary volumes of these editions already published or in preparation. It will embrace all the extant works of Marx and Engels published in their lifetime and a considerable part of their legacy of manuscripts— manuscripts not published in their lifetime and unfinished works, outlines, rough drafts and fragments. The contents of the main sections of the volumes will include authorised publications of speeches by Marx and Engels or reports of their speeches which they themselves verified. Author's revisions of various works are regarded as works in their own right and will be included alongside the original texts. Of the available preliminary manuscript versions, however, only those that differ essentially from the final text will be published in this edition.

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Roman Rosdolsky, Engels and the ‘Nonhistoric’ Peoples: the National Question in the Revolution of 1848

Roman Rosdolsky, Engels and the ‘Nonhistoric’ Peoples: the National Question in the Revolution of 1848

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The extraordinary work that follows was written by the Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky (1898-1967) in the spring of 1948, in the centennial year of the revolution with which it is concerned. In spite of the timeliness of its composition, Rosdolsky's monograph could not find a publisher immediately. This was partly due to the postwar chaos and the author's circumstances. Rosdolsky had only recently come to America,where he settled in Detroit, and he wrote his monograph in German. His connections with the new Europe were still very tenuous, and with some connections, being a former Communist in Cold-War America, he had to be quite circumspect in order to avoid deportation. Given, furthermore, the general isolating effect of his very modest means, it is understandable that almost anything Rosdolsky might have written in this period, regardless of topic, would have had difficulties in finding a publisher.However, this book in particular posed a problem. It concerned some embarassing statements made by Marx and, above all, Engels with regard to East European peoples. During the revolution of 1848-49 Marx and Engels had characterized most of the Slavic peoples (the outstanding exception being the Poles) and other East European peoples (such as the Romanians and Saxons of Transylvania) as nonhistoric, counter revolutionary by nature and doomed to extinction. The statements, moreover,were saturated with insulting epithets (pig-headed, barbarian,robber) and ominous-sounding threats (a bloody revenge that would annihilate these reactionary peoples). Such sentiments had a particular lynasty ring in the immediate postwar years, in the wake of Nazi brutality in Eastern Europe, and they seemed all the more perverse at a time when Communist parties were taking power in the same East European nations that Engels had written off as counter-revolutionary by their very nature. Exacerbating the ironies and sensitivities was the vehemently anti-Russian animus that permeated these particular passages in Engels' writings, and Russia, of course, had become in the meantime the fatherland of the proletarian revolution.

Heather Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study

Heather Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study

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This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx’s perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns. Although Marx’s writings sometimes exhibit sexism his work often transcends these phrases. Brown studies his writings on gender, as well as his 1879-1882 notebooks on precapitalist societies and gender.

Marx and Engels Collected Works Volumes 1-47

As you know, Lawrence and Wishhart, an English private publishing house, has decided to hold the copyright of MECW, thus deleting all the texts starting from April 30th. It is ironic that the works tha are going to be deleted fought and critique such behavior.


However, here is the PDF to all 47 volumes. 

The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition

The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition
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This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels'€”those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.
Features Selections from the Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Alienation and Social Classes, Theses on Feuerbach, The Civil War in France, On Imperialism in India, On Social Relations in Russia, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, and much more.

Friedrich Engels, The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels, The Principles of Communism

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