Selected Works
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Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: fep clipped; rear hinges cracked, no loose pages.
Few texts have reshaped the course of human history as profoundly as the collected writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels — and Selected Works brings together the most essential and enduring of their revolutionary ideas in a single, authoritative volume. Published by Progress Publishers in Moscow, this landmark anthology chronicles the intellectual partnership that gave birth to modern socialism and communism, gathering seminal works such as The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour and Capital, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, and Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, among others, presenting readers with a comprehensive panorama of Marxist thought across history, economics, and political theory. The writings assembled here argue with relentless precision and rhetorical power for a materialist understanding of history — one in which class struggle, economic forces, and the contradictions of capitalism drive social transformation. Marx and Engels write with a commanding urgency that alternates between dense philosophical analysis and incandescent political polemic, making their prose as intellectually rigorous as it is historically consequential. Whether one approaches this collection as a student of political philosophy, a historian of ideas, or a curious general reader, Selected Works remains an indispensable key to understanding the ideological currents that defined — and continue to animate — the modern world.
Author: Karl Marx And Frederick Engels
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Progress Publishers, Moscow
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: fep clipped; rear hinges cracked, no loose pages.
Few texts have reshaped the course of human history as profoundly as the collected writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels — and Selected Works brings together the most essential and enduring of their revolutionary ideas in a single, authoritative volume. Published by Progress Publishers in Moscow, this landmark anthology chronicles the intellectual partnership that gave birth to modern socialism and communism, gathering seminal works such as The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour and Capital, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, and Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, among others, presenting readers with a comprehensive panorama of Marxist thought across history, economics, and political theory. The writings assembled here argue with relentless precision and rhetorical power for a materialist understanding of history — one in which class struggle, economic forces, and the contradictions of capitalism drive social transformation. Marx and Engels write with a commanding urgency that alternates between dense philosophical analysis and incandescent political polemic, making their prose as intellectually rigorous as it is historically consequential. Whether one approaches this collection as a student of political philosophy, a historian of ideas, or a curious general reader, Selected Works remains an indispensable key to understanding the ideological currents that defined — and continue to animate — the modern world.