Karl Marx: A Reader

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This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx's most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology. Jon Elster provides a brief introduction to each selection to explain its context and its place in Marx's argument. The volume is designed as a companion to Elster's An Introduction to Karl Marx and the thematic structure of each book is the same. But the Reader can also stand on its own and offers the student a substantial and revealingly organized selection of the crucial texts needed to understand and assess Marx's views. Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments I. Marxist Methodology 1. Introduction to the Grundrisse 2. Theses on Feuerbach 3. From The German Ideology II. Alienation 4. From Comments on James Mill 5. From The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 6. From the Grundrisse 7. From Capital I III. Marxian Economics 8. From Capital I 9. From Capital III IV. Exploitation 10. From The German Ideology 11. From Results of the Immediate Process of Production 12. From Capital I 13. From Critique of the Gotha Programme V. Historical Materialism 14. From The German Ideology 15. Preface to A Critique of Political Economy 16. From the Grundrisse 17. From Capital I 18. From Capital III VI. Class Consciousness and Class Struggle 19. From The Communist Manifesto 20. From the Newspaper Articles on England 21. From The Class Struggles in France 22. From The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 23. From Capital III VII. Marx's Theory of Politics 24. From The Communist Manifesto 25. Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League 26. From The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 27. From The Civil War in France 28. From Critique of the Gotha Programme 29. From the Comments on Bakunin VIII. The Marxist Critique of Ideology 30. From Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law. Introduction 31. From The German Ideology 32. From The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 33. From Theories of Surplus-Value Sources Index