The International Peoples’ Assembly invites you to an introductory study of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Click on the title of each text to download it, or use the Study Guide and read it in your preferred edition.
| TOPIC | READING |
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| Foundations of the Historic Materialism | 1. Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
2. Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Preface)
3. Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism |
| From Philosophy to Revolutionary Theory | 4. Marx & Engels, The German Ideology (Part I, « Feuerbach » – Sections 1 & 2 only)
5. Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selections on alienation) |
| Economic Foundations of Class Relations | 6. Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (Chapters 1-5)
7. Engels, Principles of Communism (Questions 1-12) |
| The Communist Manifesto – Theory and Program | 8. Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Complete)
9. Engels, Principles of Communism (Questions 13-25) |
| Historical Analysis and State Power | 10. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Chapters I & VII)
11. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (Chapters 1-3) |
| Development of Scientific Socialism | 12. Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Complete)
13. Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Chapter II: « The Family ») |
| Capitalist Economics and Labor Theory | 14. Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (Chapters 6-9)
15. Marx, Value, Price and Profit (Chapters I-V on « Production and Wages ») |
| Communist Society and Surplus Value | 16. Marx, Value, Price and Profit (Chapters VI-X )
17. Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (Sections on distribution and communist society) |
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