Marx: Later Political Writings

A collection of Marx's important later writings translated and introduced by a leading Marx scholar.

Karl Marx (Author), Terrell Carver (Edited by)

9780521367394, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 January 1996

300 pages
21.7 x 13.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.422 kg

Marx: Later Political Writings, first published in 1996, brings together translations of Marx's most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. Marx challenged political theory to its very fundamentals, as his works do not follow traditional models for exploring politics theoretically. In his introduction, Terrell Carver situates Marx in a politics of democratic constitutionalism and revolutionary communism. The works are presented here complete, according to the first editions or the earliest manuscript state, and include the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Preface of 1859 to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, The Civil War in France, and the little-known Notes on Adolph Wagner. More than most political theorists, Marx made contemporary politics the focus for his theoretical work. He created a distinctive kind of political theory, and this volume makes it accessible today.

Introduction
Chronology
Manifesto of the Communist Party: the eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
'Introduction' (1857) to the Grundrisse
'Preface' to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
The Civil War in France
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Notes on Adolph Wagner.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]