Works of Marx and Engels: 1860s

 


—“The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”— [Capital]

1860s

 

Letters

1860

Herr Vogt
Savoy, Nice and the Rhine, Engels April 1860
Letters

1861

Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63
Theories of Surplus Value, Vol. 1
Articles on the U.S. Civil War recommended
Letters

“In consequence of my long illness, my economic situation has reached a point of crisis. I have accumulated debts, which are a crushing mental burden and make me incapable of any activity other than the work in which I am immersed... I have not yet succeeded in re-establishing my former lucrative links with America. They are so taken up with their own movement there they regard any expenditure on European reports as unnecessary costs. I could help them by emigrating myself. But I consider it my duty to remain in Europe and complete the work on which I have been engaged for so many years. As regards to that work itself, I do not think I shall be able to deliver the manuscript of the first volume (it has now grown to 3 volumes) to Hamburg before October. I can only work productively for a very few hours per day without immediately feeling the effects physically, and for my family's sake I suppose I must, however unwillingly, resolve to observe the hygienic limits until I am fully recovered. ... I cannot go to Geneva. I consider that what I am doing through this work is far more important for the working class than anything I might be able to do personally at any Congress.”. [from Letter to Kugelmann, Marx, 23 August 1866]

1862


Letters

1863


Letters

1864

International Workingmen's Association
The Direct Process of Production of Capitalrecommended
Marx’s Inaugural Addressrecommended
Letters

1865

The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party
Marx’s “Confession”
Value, Price, and Profit
Letters

1866

What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland?
Letters

“Of course the method of presentation must differ in form from that of inquiry. The latter has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyse its different forms of development, to trace out their inner connexion. Only after this work is done, can the actual movement be adequately described. If this is done successfully, if the life of the subject-matter is ideally reflected as in a mirror, then it may appear as if we had before us a mere a priori construction”. [from Afterword to Second German Edition of Das Kapital, Marx, 1873]

1867

CAPITAL, VOLUME Irecommended
Letters

1868

Synopsis of Marx's Capital
The conflict with Bakunin
Engels’ “Confession”
Letters

1869

Letters