Making the relationships organizing our lives visible.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
The catalogue distinguishes published books, named short texts, posthumously edited manuscripts, and journalistic collections. Capital’s Volumes I–III are grouped here with Engels’s role specified; Theories of Surplus Value retains its distinct editorial status. MEGA and MECW include many additional articles, excerpts, notebooks, and letters. The correspondence inventory states its documentary scope and does not replace the complete MEGA correspondence; the eleven Theses are indexed separately.
Explore letters and fragmentsDoctoral dissertation; surviving manuscript has gaps. The young Marx works within German idealism; this text does not yet contain his mature critique of political economy.
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Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Two articles responding to Bruno Bauer. Against Bauer, Marx defends political rights without prior abandonment of Judaism. The second part also uses anti-Jewish stereotypes requiring explicit scrutiny.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Working notebooks published long after Marx’s death. These manuscripts are not a finished book. Philosophical categories and editorial history differ from later developments in Capital.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Polemical work written with Friedrich Engels. The book precedes The German Ideology. Its irony and specific opponents require contextual reading.
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Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Preparatory notebooks for the critique of political economy. The 1857 Introduction and the so-called “fragment on machines” belong to this set, not an independently completed program.
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