Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

Engels explains how Marxism grew out of Hegel and Feuerbach and sets out the basics of dialectical materialism. Short, clear and foundational.

Friedrich Engels

An introductory study course on dialectical materialism that explains contradiction, change and the laws of dialectics with everyday examples.

Ray Nunes

Three essays by the father of Russian Marxism on materialism, the role of the individual in history and the materialist view of history.

George Plekhanov

Essays by the Italian philosopher on the scientific status of historical materialism and Marx's theory of value. A classic critical reading from outside the Marxist camp.

Benedetto Croce

A doctoral thesis on how Marx thinks about time and history, questioning the idea of linear progress in his work. For advanced readers of Marxist philosophy.

George Tomlinson