Critique of the Gotha Programme

The founding work of Marxist economics, explaining commodities, labour, surplus value and the accumulation of capital. This is the classic Moore and Aveling translation edited by Engels.

Karl Marx

Marx's first systematic study of commodities and money, whose famous preface sums up historical materialism in a single page. The bridge to Capital.

Karl Marx

Marx and Engels settle accounts with the Young Hegelians and set out the materialist conception of history for the first time, starting with the famous chapter on Feuerbach.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Two short works where Marx explains wages, prices and profit in plain language for working people. The most accessible way into his economics.

Karl Marx

Marx's account of the 1871 Paris Commune, the first workers' government, and the lessons he drew from it about the state. Includes Engels' introduction.

Karl Marx