Marx/Engels Collected Works
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Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others, consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and issued between 1975 and 2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York City).
Overview
The Collected Works contains material written by Marx between 1835 and his death in 1883, and by Engels between 1838 and his death in 1895. The early volumes include juvenilia, including correspondence between Marx and his father, Marx's poetry, and letters from Engels to his sister. Several volumes collect the pair's articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
Other volumes in the Collected Works contain the most important works by Marx and Engels, including The Communist Manifesto, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, and Capital, as well as more obscure pieces, and previously unpublished or untranslated manuscripts. The Collected Works includes 13 volumes of correspondence by the mature Marx and Engels, covering the period from 1844 through 1895.
Although the Collected Works is the most complete collection of the work by Marx and Engels published to date in English, it is not their complete works. A project to publish the pair's complete works in German is expected to require more than 120 volumes.
Contents
Volume | Title and contents | Year published | ISBN |
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1 | (M) August 1835 – March 1843 | 1975 | 0717804070 |
2 | (E) August 1838 – December 1842 | 1975 | |
3 | (M) March 1843 – Aug 1844; (E) May 1843 – June 1844 | 1975 | |
4 | (M/E) 1844–45, incl. Holy Family & Condition of Working Class | 1975 | |
5 | (M/E) April 1845 – April 1847, including German Ideology | 1975 | |
6 | (M/E) 1845–48, including Poverty of Philosophy and Manifesto | 1976 | |
7 | (M/E) 1848, articles for Neue Rheinische Zeitung | 1977 | |
8 | (M/E) 1848–49, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung | 1977 | |
9 | (M/E) 1849, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung | 1977 | |
10 | (M/E) 1849–51, including Peasant War in Germany | 1978 | |
11 | (M/E) 1851–53, including Eighteenth Brumaire | 1979 | |
12 | (M/E) 1853–54, mainly on British Colonialism | 1979 | |
13 | (M/E) 1854–55, re Revolutionary Spain and Crimean War | 1980 | |
14 | (M/E) 1855–56, incl. material on British politics and Crimean War | 1980 | |
15 | (M/E) 1856–58, mainly Europe and India | 1986 | |
16 | (M/E) 1858–60, mainly events in Europe | 1980 | |
17 | (M/E) 1859–60, including Herr Vogt and military matters | 1981 | |
18 | (M/E) 1857–62, Articles for Encyclopaedia | 1987 | |
19 | (M/E) 1861–64, including material on American Civil War | 1984 | |
20 | (M/E) 1864–68, including Value, Prices and Profit | 1985 | |
21 | (M/E) 1867–70, re International Workingmen's Association | 1985 | |
22 | (M/E) 1870–71, re Franco-Prussian War | 1986 | |
23 | (M/E) 1871–74, re International, Bakunin, Housing Question | 1988 | |
24 | (M/E) 1874–83, Crit. / Gotha Prog. & Utopian & Scientific | 1989 | |
25 | (E) Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature | 1987 | 0717805255 |
26 | (E) 1882–89, including Origin of the Family, etc. | 1990 | |
27 | (E) 1890–95, re Europe | 1990 | |
28 | (M) Economic Works, 1857–1861 | 1986 | |
29 | (M) Economic Works, 1857–1861 | 1987 | |
30 | (M) Economic Works, 1861–1863 | 1988 | |
31 | (M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts | 1989 | |
32 | (M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts | 1989 | |
33 | (M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts | 1991 | |
34 | (M) Economic Works, 1861–1864 | 1994 | |
35* | (M) Capital, Volume I | 1996 | 0717805360 |
36 | (M) Capital, Volume II | 1997 | |
37 | (M) Capital, Volume III | 1998 | 0717805379 |
38 | (M/E) 1844–51, Letters | 1982 | |
39 | (M/E) 1852–55, Letters | 1983 | |
40 | (M/E) 1856–59, Letters | 1983 | |
41 | (M/E) 1860–64, Letters | 1985 | |
42 | (M/E) 1864–68, Letters | 1987 | |
43 | (M/E) 1868–70, Letters | 1988 | |
44 | (M/E) 1870–73, Letters | 1989 | |
45 | (M/E) 1874–79, Letters | 1991 | |
46 | (M/E) 1880–83, Letters | 1992 | |
47 | (E) 1883–86, Letters | 1995 | |
48 | (E) 1887–90, Letters | 2001 | 0717805484 |
49 | (E) 1890–92, Letters | 2001 | 0717805492 |
50 | (E) 1892–95, Letters | 2004 | 0717805506 |
Key: (M) Marx, (E) Engels, (M/E) Marx and Engels
(*) – This volume has an errata available on the Lawrence and Wishart web site.[1]
See also
- Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the complete works of Marx and Engels in German
- The Karl Marx Library, an aborted 13 volume series edited by Saul K. Padover, terminated in 1977
References
External links
- "Index to Marx/Engels Collected Works," Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists/org