The Marx-Engels Reader
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The Marx-Engels Reader
| Author | Robert C. Tucker (editor) |
|---|---|
| Published | 1972 |
| Pages | 686 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The standard single-volume anthology of Marx and Engels in English, printing the primary texts nearly complete rather than excerpted — the 1844 manuscripts, The German Ideology, the Manifesto, the Critique of the Gotha Program, key sections of Capital — arranged to follow the development from early philosophy to mature economics. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), under Marxism and Collective Psychology, directly after “The Communist Manifesto” and Isaiah Berlin’s “Karl Marx” — the move from polemic and biography to the primary corpus. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
Edited by the Princeton Sovietologist Robert C. Tucker for W. W. Norton. The second edition (1978, roughly 790 pages) is the one most courses assign.
Connections
- Karl Marx — the principal author of the collected texts.
- Socialism — the tradition these documents define.
- The Opium of the Intellectuals — the critique at the head of the same section of McCord’s list.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.