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Karl Marx: The Essential Writings

by Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender. 516 pgs.

Contributors:

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

Publisher:

   Westview Press

Place of Publication:

  Boulder, CO  

Publication Year:

  1986

Subjects:

Socialism

	Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
	Chronological Table	xxiii
	Introduction	1
	Part I The Young Marx on Philosophy, Religion, and the State (1841-1843)	13
1.	Philosophy as Criticism and Practice	15
2.	On Censorship of the Press	17
3.	Religion and Authority	21
4.	Law and Morality	24
5.	The Social Base of Politics	28
6.	In Praise of Democracy	30
7.	Critical Philosophy and Social Reform	40
8.	Religion, Philosophy, and the Proletariat	45
9.	Political Rights versus Human Emancipation	53
	Part II Alienation and Its Overcoming in Communism (1844)	67
10.	Alienated Labor	69
11.	From Human Being to Commodity	81
12.	Private Property versus Communism	86
13.	The Perversion of Human Needs	100
14.	The Destructive Power of Money	110
15.	Alienated Labor versus Truly Human Production	116
	Part III Critique of the Philosophical Tradition (1844-1846)	127
16.	Critique of Hegel	129
17.	Critique of Idealism	140
18.	Critique of Abstract Materialism	144
19.	Critique of Feuerbach	152
	Part IV The Materialist Conception of History (1845-1877)	159
20.	Outline of Historical Materialism and Warning Against Its Oversimplification	161
21.	Essentials of the Theory	164
22.	Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations	208
	Part V The Politics of Revolution (1844-1875)	231
23.	Revolution: Social or Political?	233
24.	The Revolutionary Proletariat	238
25.	The Manifesto	240
26.	Communist Tactics in a Democracy	264
27.	Critique of Reformist Tendencies	273
28.	The Paris Commune and "Proletarian Dictatorship"	287
	Part VI The Theoretical Analysis of Capitalism (1857-1883)	301
29.	Production in General	303
30.	The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange, and Consumption	309
31.	The Method of Political Economy	320
32.	The Commodity	327
33.	The Fetishism of Commodities	335
34.	Exchange and Money	346
35.	The General Formula for Capital	349
36.	The Sale of Labor Power	355
37.	The Labor Process	359
38.	The Production of Surplus Value	367
39.	The Rate of Surplus Value	371
40.	The Struggle Between Capitalist and Laborer	380
41.	The Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital	384
42.	The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation	386
43.	The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Surplus Value to Fall	398
44.	Means of Counteracting the Law	407
45.	The Dialectic of Capitalist Production	419
46.	The Grundrisse on Alienation and Automation	431
	Part VII On Imperialism and the Developing World (1853-1882)	449
47.	The Colonial System and the Genesis of Capitalism	451
48.	British Imperialism in India	455
49.	Revolution in China and Europe	464
50.	Russia's Drive for World Domination	471
51.	Russia's Revolutionary Potential	480
	Part VIII The Democratic Road to Socialism (1850-1880)	483
52.	The Final Split in the Communist League	485
53.	Inaugural Address of the First International	487
54.	Letter to Abraham Lincoln	495
55.	Trade Unions	497
56.	The Possibility of Nonviolent Revolution	499
57.	Against "Personality Cults"	502
	Suggestions for Further Reading	503
	Index	508

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