—— 1865 ——

“Workers ought not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!’ they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wages system!’” [Value, Price and Profit]

Major Works

International Workingmen's Association, 1865
including Value, Price, and Profit

Correspondence

Minor Works

The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party
Marx’s “Confession”
Letters to the Editor