Marx & Engels Collected Works Vol 23: Marx and Engels:1871-1874

The Marx/Engels Collected Works is the largest collection of translations of the complete works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels covering the period 1835-1895. The 50 volumes contain all the written works of Marx and Engels including formerly unpublished manuscripts and letters. The volumes are organised into three groups: (1) philosophical, historical, political, economic and other works, in chronological order; (2) Marx’s Capital with his preliminary versions and works directly connected with it, particularly the Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58, better known under the editorial heading Grundisse der Kritik der Politischen Okonomie ; (3) the letters of Marx and Engels which are extremely rich in theoretical content and provide an indispensable source for the study of the biographies of Marx and Engels. This digital collection gives scholars access to the complete oeuvre in a fully searchable format. Volume 23 contains pamphlets, articles, documents of the First International, and other works by Marx and Engels, written between October 1871 and July 1874. These materials reflect the comprehensive development of the Marxist world outlook in the last years of the First International which laid the basis for the existence of national independent working class parties. The contents of this volume are of fundamental importance of the development of Marxist political thought, including the Marxist theory of the state, the tactics of the class struggle under capitalism, and the prerequisites for working class political power. These, and other major themes, are discussed in the texts contained in this volume which include the Preface to the German edition of the Communist Manifesto (1872), the articles “Political Indifferentism” (by Marx) and “On Authority” (by Engels), and the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune in which they draw theoretical lessons of fundamental importance to the working-class movement.