A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which...

Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism.

Marx: Later Political Writings brings together the most important texts in political philosophy written by Marx after 1848. All are in new translations, and the collection is introduced by the leading Marx scholar Terrell Carver. Unlike other collections, the works are presented complete, according to their earliest edition or manuscript text, and include the Manifesto of the Communist Party, and the little-known Notes on Adolph Wagner. These texts allow the close contact between Marx and contemporary politics to emerge in a clearer light.

In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted.

As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of...

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-curated shelf or in your back pocket, these timeless works of philosophical, political, and psychological thought are absolute must-haves for book collectors as well as design enthusiasts.
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to...

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Die deutsche Ideologie Entstanden 1845/46. Das Werk wurde nicht vollendet und ist auch nicht vollstandig uberliefert. So fehlen z.B. das 2. und 3. Kapitel des 2. Bandes. Zu Lebzeiten von Marx und Engels wurde nur das 4. Kapitel des 2. Bandes veroffentlicht (in der Zeitschrift Das Westphalische Dampfboot, Paderborn, 1847). Das an verschiedenen Stellen von Mausen zerfressene Manuskript wurde zum ersten Mal vollstandig in der Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, Erste Abteilung, Band 5, Moskau/Leningrad 1933, ediert. Neuausgabe. Groformat, 190 x 270 mm Herausgegeben von...

A concise volume of Karl Marx's most famous works