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Lawrence & Wishart: Marx and Engels Collected Works (50 titles).
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 1: Karl Marx 1835-43
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853152845
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 1 contains the very early writings of Karl Marx, from 1835 to March 1843. The greater part of these have not previously been published in English translation. They include letters and essays written as a schoolboy and student, poems, early journalistic writings, and his graduate studies in the ancient philosophers - the Doctoral Dis-sertation with the accompanying Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 2: Frederick Engels 1838-42
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853152926
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 2 contains works and letters by the young Engels for the period 1838-42. Nearly all are published in English for the first time. The volume includes Engels' youthful poetic efforts, his articles and reviews on various social and political topics, with his writings in the Rheinische Zeitung, his pamphlets defending the progressive aspects of the Hegelian philosophy against Schelling, and his essays in literary criticism. How Engels' world outlook was being formed in this period, and the variety of his interests-in science, literature, the theatre, music and snort-is further revealed.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 3: Karl Marx March 1843-August 1844
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853152934
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 3 covers the period between the spring of 1843 and August 1844 before their close collaboration between Marx and Engels began. These writings represent the transition of Marx and Engels from idealism to materialism and the elaboration of a scientific basis of a new, revolutionary-proletarian world outlook. The first part of this volume consists of works by Marx, including his manuscript Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 published here represent Marx's first attempt to synthesise the new philosophical, economic and historical-political ideas. The second part contains works by Engels: "Letters from London", "Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy", in which for the first time economic phenomena were examined from the viewpoint of communist theory, and his series of articles entitled "The Condition of England".
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 4: Marx and Engels 1844-45
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853152942
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 4 contains works written between the time when they first began to collaborate in August-September 1844 and the autumn of the following year. The writings included in this volume represent an important new stage in the formation of revolutionary Marxism. Apart from such fundamental works as Marx's and Engels' The Holy Family and Engels' The Condition of the Working-Class in England, this volume includes a number of works published in English for the first time, such as Marx's "Draft of an Article on Friedrich List's book Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie", his article "Peuchet: On Suicide", manuscript notes and plans, Engels' "Speeches in Elberfeld" and "History of the English Corn Laws".! ,
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 5: Marx and Engels 1845-47
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0717805050
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 5 contains The German Ideology, a major joint work of Marx and Engels, together with the writings immediately connected with it. The volume begins with Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach.", which Engels said contain "the brilliant germ of the new world oudook". It was in The German Ideology that die materialist conception of history, or, historical materialism, was first formulated as an integral theory. It marks an important step forward in the development of Marxism. The text of The German Ideology is presented in a more complete form than in any previous edition and its arrangement corresponds as nearly as possible to that in the manuscript.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 6: Marx and Engels 1845-48
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853153124
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 6 contains Marx's Poverty of Philosophy. Answer to the "Philosophy of Poverty" by M. Proudhon-one of the first works of mature Marxism. The central work in this volume is the Manifesto of the Communist Party, published together with its preliminary versions ("Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", Principles of Communism). This is the first programmatic document of scientific communism expounding the fundamentals of Marxism in a comprehensive and systematic form.
Also included are the numerous articles and reports by Marx and Engels published in The Northern Star, Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung, La Réforme, documents of the Communist League and other materials.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 7: Marx and Engels 1848
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853153523
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 7 contains the works Marx and Engels wrote between March and November 1848. The volume comprises the "Demands of the Communist Party in Germany", the concrete programme of the proletariat in the German revolution, drawn up by Marx and Engels in the name of the Central Authority of the Communist League. The bulk of the volume consists of articles by Marx and Engels published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung between June 1 and November 7, 1848. A number of articles are devoted to important revolutionary events which took place in 1848, e. g. the uprising of the Paris workers in June,thee September uprising in Frankfurt am Main and the October uprising in Vienna. Their articles in support of the Italians, Poles, Czechs and other oppressed nations forcefully express their attitude towards national liberation movements.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 8: Marx and Engels 1848-49
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853153531
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 8 of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels contains their writings from November 8, 1848, to March 5, 1849. This is the second of three volumes (Vols. 7-9) covering the period of revolutions in 1848 and 1849.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 9: Marx and Engels 1849
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 085315354X
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 9 is the last in the group of volumes (7-9) covering the activities of Marx and Engels during the revolutions of 1848-49. It encompasses the period from March 6 to August 1849, and consists in the main of articles written by Marx and Engels for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, an organ of the revolutionary proletarian wing of German and European democracy. It also contains several articles which, after the suppression of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Marx and Engels published in the still surviving German democratic newspapers.
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Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 10: Marx and Engels 1849-51
Author: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Published: March 2010
ISBN: HB 0853153558
Subject: Politics,Marxism
Volume 10 covers the period between the autumn of 1849 and the summer of 1851. During this period Marx and Engels devoted themselves mainly to drawing lessons from the European revolutions of 1848-49, studying the laws of the class struggle, and working out tactics and strategy for the working class in new conditions.
Alongside such major works as The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 by Marx and The Peasant War in German by Engels, the volume contains works that are being published in English for the first time, such as "Louis Napoleon and Fould", an article by Marx, The Campaign for the Gepnan Imperial Constitution, "On the Slogan of the Abolition of the State and the German 'Friends of Anarchy'", "Conditions and Prospects of a War of the Holy Alliance against France in 1852" by Engels, international reviews written jointly by Marx and Engels, and other works.
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