—“Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since ... the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.”— [Preface to CPE]
Letters | |
| “Civil vexations of every kind, all manner of business and, finally, the general difficulty I have in bringing myself to write a letter, will explain to you my long silence. I have at last, after so many vicissitudes, succeeded in giving reality to my Revue that is to say, I have a printer and a distributor in Hamburg. Otherwise we do everything at our own expense. The worst of it is that in Germany so much time is always lost before one can get to the point of publication. I have little doubt that by the time 3, or maybe 2, monthly issues have appeared, a world conflagration will intervene and the opportunity of temporarily finishing with political economy will be gone”. [from Letter to Weydermeyer, Marx, 1849] | |
1850 |
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League |
1851 |
Prospects of a War of the Holy Alliance Against France |
1852 |
Letter to The Times from a Prussian |
1853 |
Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne (M) |
1854 |
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1855 |
The Armies of Europe |
1856 |
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| “The publication of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1848 and 1849 and subsequent events cut short my economic studies, which I could only resume in London in 1850. The enormous amount of material relating to the history of political economy assembled in the British Museum, the fact that London is a convenient vantage point for the observation of bourgeois society, and finally the new stage of development which this society seemed to have entered with the discovery of gold in California and Australia, induced me to start again from the very beginning and to work carefully through the new material. These studies led partly of their own accord to apparently quite remote subjects on which I had to spend a certain amount of time. But it was in particular the imperative necessity of earning my living which reduced the time at my disposal. My collaboration, continued now for eight years, with the New York Tribune, the leading Anglo-American newspaper, necessitated an excessive fragmentation of my studies, for I wrote only exceptionally newspaper correspondence in the strict sense. Since a considerable part of my contributions consisted of articles dealing with important economic events in Britain and on the continent, I was compelled to become conversant with practical detail which, strictly speaking, lie outside the sphere of political economy”. [from Preface to Critique of Political Economy, Marx, 1859] | |
1857 |
Diplomatic History of the 18th Century, Marx |
| “The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits. ... Their indomitable hatred of rule, and their love of individual independence, alone prevents their becoming a powerful nation; but this very irregularity and uncertainty of action makes them dangerous neighbours, liable to be blown about by the wind of caprice, or to be stirred up by political intriguers, who artfully excite their passions.” [On Afghanistan, Engels, 1857] | |
1858 |
To the Editor of the Neue Zeit, Marx July 1858 |
1859 |
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy |
