MECW Vol. 6

Writings from the eve of the European revolutions of 1848–49, including Poverty of Philosophy, the Communist Manifesto and its drafts, Communist League documents, and articles establishing Marxist theory and programme.

Source: Lawrence & Wishart

Contents

125 chapters

• Colophon
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. F. Engels. The Festival of Nations in London
• 2. F. Engels. The State of Germany
• 3. K. Marx. Statement
• 4. K. Marx and F. Engels. Circular Against Kriege
• 5. F. Engels. Violation of the Prussian Constitution
• 6. K. Marx and F. Engels. Letter from the Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee to G. A. Köttgen
• 7. F. Engels. The Prussian Bank Question
• 8. K. Marx and F. Engels. Address of the German Democratic Communists of Brussels to Mr. Feargus O'Connor
• 9. F. Engels. Government and Opposition in France
• 10. F. Engels. The Prussian Constitution
• 11. K. Marx. Declaration Against Karl Grün
• 12. F. Engels. The Constitutional Question in Germany
• II. The Status Quo and the Bourgeoisie
• 13. F. Engels. Protective Tariffs or Free Trade System
• 14. F. Engels. Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith
• 15. K. Marx. The Poverty of Philosophy. Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon
• Chapter I. A Scientific Discovery Ill § 1. The Opposition Between Use Value and Exchange Value Ill § 2. Constituted Value or Synthetic Value
• § 3. Application of the Law of the Proportionality of Value
• Chapter II. The Metaphysics of Political Economy
• 16. F. Engels. The Decline and Approaching Fall of Guizot.
• 17. K. Marx. The Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter
• 18. F. Engels. German Socialism in Verse and Prose
• 2. Karl Grün, Über Göthe vom menschlichen Standpunkte. Darmstadt, 1846
• 19. F. Engels. The Economic Congress
• 20. K. Marx. The Protectionists, the Free Traders and the Working Class
• 21. F. Engels. The Free Trade Congress at Brussels
• 22. F. Engels. The Communists and Karl Heinzen
• Second Article
• 23. F. Engels. The Commercial Crisis in England. The Chartist Movement. Ireland
• 24. F. Engels. The Masters and the Workers in England. To the Worker Editors of L'A teller
• 25. K. Marx. Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality. A Contribution to German Cultural History. Contra Karl Heinzen
• 26. F. Engels. Principles of Communism
• 27. F. Engels. The Agrarian Programme of the Chartists
• 28. F. Engels. The Chartist Banquet in Connection with the Elections of 1847
• 29. F. Engels. The Manifesto of M. de Lamartine
• 30. F. Engels. The Civil War in Switzerland
• 31. F. Engels. The Reform Movement in France
• 32. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement
• 33. F. Engels. Split in the Camp.
• 34. K. Marx and F. Engels. On Poland. Speeches at the International Meeting Held in London on November 29, 1847 to Mark the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Uprising of 1830
• Engels'Speech
• 35. F. Engels. The Anniversary of the Polish Revolution of 1830
• 36. F. Engels. Reform Banquet at Lille.
• 37. F. Engels. Reform Movement in France.n
• 38. K. Marx. Remarks on the Article by M. Adolphe Bartels
• 39. K. Marx. Lamartine and Communism
• 40. F. Engels. The Réforme and the National
• 41. F. Engels. Louis Blanc's Speech at the Dijon Banquet
• 42. F. Engels. Chartist Agitation
• 43. K. Marx. Wages
• [ B] Additions
• [ C] .,
• 44. F. Engels. The "Satisfied" Majority.
• 45. F. Engels. The Coercion Bill for Ireland and the Chartists
• 46. F. Engels. Feargus O'Connor and the Irish People
• 47. K. Marx. Speech on the Question of Free Trade Delivered to the Democratic Association of Brussels at Its Public Meeting of January 9,1848
• 48. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement. [The Fraternal Democrats to the Working Classes of Great Britain and Ireland]
• 49. K. Marx. The Situation in France
• 50. F. Engels. Extraordinary Revelations.
• 51. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement. [ Meeting in Support of the National Petition]
• 52. K. Marx and F. Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party
• II. Proletarians and Communists
• III. Socialist and Communist Literature
• IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties
• 53. F. Engels. The Movements of 1847
• 54. F. Engels. The Beginning of the End in Austria
• 55. K. Marx. The Débat social of February 6 on die Democratic Association
• 56. F. Engels. Three New Constitutions
• 57. K. Marx and F. Engels. On the Polish Question
• Speech by Mr. Frederick Engels
• 58. F. Engels. A Word to the Riforma
• 59. F. Engels. Revolution in Paris
• 60. F. Engels. To the Editor of The Northern Star
• 61. K. Marx. To the Editor of La Réforme
• 62. K. Marx. Persecution of Foreigners in Brussels
• 63. F. Engels. The Situation in Belgium
• FROM THE PREPARATORY MATERIALS
• 2. K. Marx. Demand
• 3. K. Marx. Draft Plan for Section III of the Manifesto of the Communist Party
• 4. K. Marx. Page from the Rough Draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party
• 5. K. Marx. Notes on the Arrest, Maltreatment and Expulsion of Wilhelm Wolff by the Brussels Police
• APPENDICES
• 2. A Circular of the First Congress of the Communist League to the League Members. June 9,1847
• 3. Note by Marx on the Formation of the Brussels Community and Circleof the Communist League. August 5,1847
• 4. The Central Authority to the League
• 5. The Northern Star on the Meeting in London on November 29, 1847 to Mark the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Insurrection of 1830
• 6. Address of the Democratic Association of Brussels to the Swiss People
• 7. Minutes of Engels’ Lecture to the London German Workers’ Educational Society on November 30, 1847
• 8. Minutes of Marx’s Report to the London German Workers’ Educational Society on November 30, 1847
• 9. Minutes of Engels’ Lecture to the London German Workers’ Educational Society on December 7, 1847
• 10. Rulesof the Communist League ( December 1847)
• 11. From the Report of the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung on the New Year’s Eve Celebration of the German Workers’ Society in Brussels. December 31, 1847
• 12. The Association Démocratique of Brussels to the Fraternal Democrats Assembling in London
• 13. From the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung’s Report on the Meeting of the Democratic Association of February 20, 1848
• 14. From the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung’s Report on the Brussels Celebration of the Second Anniversary of the 1846 Cracow Insurrection
• 15. To the Citizens, Members of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
• 16. To Mr. Julian Harney, Editor of The Northern Star, Secretary of the Fraternal Democrats Society, London
• 17. Ferdinand Flocon to Marx in Brussels. March 1, 1848
• 18. Order of Leopold I, King of the Belgians, for Marx's Expulsion from Belgium
• 19. Decision of the Central Authority of the Communist League, March 3,1848 ,
• 20. Travel Document Issued to Marx on His Expulsion from Belgium
• 21. Minutes of the Meeting of the Paris Community of the Communist League, March 8, 1848
• 22. Minutes of the Meeting of the Paris Circle of the Communist League. March 9,1848
• 23. Announcement by the German Workers’ Club in Paris
• 24. Announcement of the Regular Meeting of the German Workers’ Club in Paris
• NOTES AND INDEXES
• Name Index
• Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature
• Index of Periodicals
• Subject Index
• Illustrations
• Cartoon by Engels of Frederick William IV making the royal speech at the opening of the United Diet in Berlin, April 11, 1847
• Beginning of Engels’ manuscript, "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith"
• Cover of the first edition of Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy
• A page of the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung with Marx’s "Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter" and the beginning of Engels’ essays "German Socialism in Verse and Prose"
• First page of Marx's manuscript " Wages"
• First page of a separate edition of Marx's " Speech on the Question of Free Trade" ( Brussels, February 1848)
• Cover of the first German 23-page edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party
• Cover of the 1848 30-page edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party
• Cover of the pamphlet containing the speeches " On the Polish Question" by Marx and Engels
• Bottom of the page from Marx's manuscript, " Protectionists", with drawings by Engels 578-
• A page of the rough draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party