Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich
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  1. Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1850
  2. Article by Marx and Engels in Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung April 1847 - February 1848
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1848
  3. Articles by Karl Marx on China 1853-1860
    Resource Type: Article
    China was, at this time, in upheaval. It was the most populous region in the world (400 million people in 1834). The "Celestial Empire" had long operated with trade surpluses, but by the 1840s, serious trade deficits plagued China. The first European-Chinese conflict (The Opium War) began in 1839 and ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. During this period, famines wracked the land. It is estimated maybe 14 million people died in 1849, and another 20 million between 1854 and 1860.
    At the same time, the Taiping rebellion broke out in 1850 and attacked the status quo Confucianist Manchu Dynasty -- which had ruled since 1644. The rebellion was based in social revolutionary ideas of equality and was popular among the masses. It abolished private property, established sexual equality, and banned drugs (from alcohol to opium). By 1853, it dominated much of SE China.
  4. Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung June 1848 - May 1849
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1848   Published: 1849
    Neue Rheinische Zeitung
  5. Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1842   Published: 1843
  6. The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
  7. England's 17th Century Revolution
    A Review of Francois Guizot's 1850 pamphlet Pourquoi la revolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1850
    For Guizot, English history ends with the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy. For him, everything that follows is limited to a pleasant alternating game between Tories and Whigs. In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England. Where M. Guizot sees only gentle calm and idyllic peace, in reality the most violent conflicts and the most penetrating revolutions are taking place.
  8. The First Indian War of Independence (1857-1858) and the East India Company (June-August 1853)
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1857
    Articles by Marx and Engels on India 1853-1859.
  9. The First Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1849
  10. The German Ideology
    Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1846   Published: 1932
    Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves."
  11. Historical Materialism
    The Materialist Conception of History
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected writings by Marx and Engels.
  12. The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1845
  13. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
  14. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1870 & after
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1870   Published: 1895
  15. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1850s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1859
  16. Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1860s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1869
  17. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1844
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844
  18. Letters of Marx and Engels 1845
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844
  19. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1846
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1846
  20. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1847
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1847
  21. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1848
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1848
  22. Letters of Marx and Engels: 1849
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1849
  23. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
    Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1844
  24. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
    Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1845
    Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
  25. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
    Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1847
    Includes The German Ideology.
  26. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
    Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
  27. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
    Marx and Engels 1848
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 - November 7, 1848.
  28. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
    Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1849
    Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
  29. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
    Marx and Engels 1849
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1849
    Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6 - May 19, 1849.
  30. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
    Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes The Peasant War in Germany.
  31. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
    Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
    of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
  32. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
    Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
    Resource Type: Book
    Articles mainly on British colonialism.
  33. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
    Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Revolutionary Spain
  34. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 14
    Marx and Engels 1855 - 1856
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes material on British politics and the Crimean War.
  35. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
    Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1858
    Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
  36. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
    Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
    Resource Type: Book
    Mainly events in Europe.
  37. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
    Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
  38. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
    Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862
    Resource Type: Book
    Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia.
  39. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
    Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
    Resource Type: Book
    Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
  40. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
    Marx and Engels 1864- 1868
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes The Prussian Military Question and the (German Workers' Party), and Value, Price and Profit, and articles and Reviews written in connection with the publication of Volume One of Capital.
  41. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
    Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
  42. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
    Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War.
  43. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
    Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
    Resource Type: Book
    Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
  44. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
    Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
  45. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 38
    Marx and Engels 1844 - 1851
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  46. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 39
    Marx and Engels 1852 - 1855
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  47. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 40
    Marx and Engels 1856 - 1859
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  48. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 41
    Marx and Engels 1860 - 1864
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  49. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 42
    Marx and Engels 1864 - 1868
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  50. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 43
    Marx and Engels 1868 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  51. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 44
    Marx and Engels 1870 - 1873
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  52. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 45
    Marx and Engels 1874 - 1879
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  53. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 46
    Marx and Engels 1880 - 1883
    Resource Type: Book
    Letters.
  54. Marx and Engels on Philosophy
    Resource Type: Website
    Early philosophical works.
  55. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
    Marx 1835 - 1843
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1835
  56. Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-okonomische Revue
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1850
    The periodical's aims were to assess the results of the 1848-49 revolution, to reveal the nature of the new historical situation, and to develop further the party's tactics. Altogether six issues were published; the last issue, a double one (5-6),came out at the end of November 1850. All further attempts to continue publication were blocked by police persecution in Germany and lack of funds.
  57. Writings by Marx and Engels on the U.S. Civil War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1861   Published: 1862