Marx Engels collected Works PDF books

 

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General Introduction		Publ.
Volume 1	(M) August 1835-March 1843.	1975
Volume 2	(E) August 1838-December 1842.	1975
Volume 3	(M) March 1843-Aug 1844. (E) May 1843-June 1844.	1975
Volume 4	(M/E) 1844-45, incl. Holy Family & Condition of Working Class	1975
Volume 5	(M/E) April 1845-April 1847, including German Ideology.	1975
Volume 6	(M/E) 1845-48, including Poverty of Philosophy and Manifesto	1976
Volume 7	(M/E) 1848, articles for Neue Rheinische Zeitung.	1977
Volume 8	(M/E) 1848-49, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung.	1977
Volume 9	(M/E) 1849, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung.	1977
Volume 10	(M/E) 1849-51, including Peasant War in Germany	1978
Volume 11	(M/E) 1851-53, including Eighteenth Brumaire	1979
Volume 12	(M/E) 1853-54, mainly on British Colonialism.	1979
Volume 13	(M/E) 1854-55, re Revolutionary Spain and Crimean War.	1980
Volume 14	(M/E) 1855-56, incl. material on British politics and Crimean War.	1980
Volume 15	(M/E) 1856-58, mainly Europe and India.	1986
Volume 16	(M/E) 1858-60, mainly events in Europe	1980
Volume 17	(M/E) 1859-60, including Herr Vogt and military matters.	1981
Volume 18	(M/E) 1857-62, Articles for Encyclopaedia.	1987
Volume 19	(M/E) 1861-64, including material on American Civil War	1984
Volume 20	(M/E) 1864-68, including Value, Prices and Profit.	1985
Volume 21	(M/E) 1867-70, re International Workingmen's Association.	1985
Volume 22	(M/E) 1870-71, re Fanco-Prussian War.	1986
Volume 23	(M/E) 1871-74, re International, Bakunin, Housing Question.	1988
Volume 24	(M/E) 1874-83, Crit. / Gotha Prog. & Utopian & Scientific	1989
Volume 25	(E) Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature	1987
Volume 26	(E) 1882-89, including Origin of the Family, etc	1990
Volume 27	(E) 1890-95, re Europe.	1990
Volume 28	(M) Economic Works, 1857-1861	1986
Volume 29	(M) Economic Works, 1857-1861	1987
Volume 30	(M) Economic Works, 1861-1863	1988
Volume 31	(M) 1861-63, Economic Manuscripts	1989
Volume 32	(M) 1861-63, Economic Manuscripts	1989
Volume 33	(M) 1861-63, Economic Manuscripts	1991
Volume 34	(M) Economic Works, 1861-1864	1994
Volume 35	(M) Capital, Volume I	1996
Volume 36	(M) Capital, Volume II	1997
Volume 37	(M) Capital, Volume III	1998
Volume 38	(M/E) 1844-51, Letters	1982
Volume 39	(M/E) 1852-55, Letters	1983
Volume 40	(M/E) 1856-59, Letters	1983
Volume 41	(M/E) 1860-64, Letters	1985
Volume 42	(M/E) 1864-68, Letters	1987
Volume 43	(M/E) 1868-70, Letters	1988
Volume 44	(M/E) 1870-73, Letters	1989
Volume 45	(M/E) 1874-79, Letters	1991
Volume 46	(M/E) 1880-83, Letters	1992
Volume 47	(E) 1883-86, Letters	1995
Volume 48	(E) 1887-90, Letters	2001
Volume 49	(E) 1890-92, Letters	2001
Volume 50	(E) 1892-95, Letters	2004

 

Marx Engels Selected Works

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Short List for beginners

1845: Theses on Feuerbach
1846: [A Critique of] the German Ideology
1847: Principles of Communism
1848: The Communist Manifesto
1849: Wage-Labor and Capital
1859: Preface to Contribution to critique of political economy
1867: Capital, Chapter One
1871: The Civil War in France
1875: Critique of the Gotha Program
1880: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
1886: Ludwig Feuerbach

 

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Progress Publishers Selected Works

Selected Works
In One Volume.

Volume 1
(1845-1859) Communist Manifesto, and Marx's early theoretical writings.

Volume 2
(1860-1872) The First International, Capital and the Paris Commune.

Volume 3
(1875-1895) Critique of the Gotha Program, and Engels' popular explanations.

 

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Lists by Marx and Engels themselves

Marx, 1868
List of Marx's works included in a brief autobiographical chronology.

Marx, 1880
Includes list of Engels’ “most important works”

Engels, November 1892,
“The fullest possible list of the published writings by Marx”

Marx, October 1868,
“Notes on my literary-political activity”

 

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Most frequently requested files in Marx-Engels Archive

 

Selections of Marx published by Penguin

Various Reading Lists (PDF)

Marx and Marxism and Supplementary reading, MSCP
Marx and Activity. XMCA