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P. Demetz, Marx, Engels and the Poets (Chicago, 1967). An assessment of the views of Marx and Engels as literary critics.

M. Dobb, Marx as an Economist (London, 1943). One of the best short introductions to Marx as an economist.

H. Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, 3 vols, (New York, i977ff). A splendidly detailed discussion aiming to show that Marx was always right.

Z. Duan, Marx's Theory of Social Formation (Avebury, 1995). An original interpretation of Marx's periodisation of history which takes issue with Cohen.

R. Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom (New York, 1958). Contains sections on the philosophical aspects of the 1844 Manuscripts and Capital.

L. Dupre, The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism (New York, 1966). A straightforward discussion of Marx's thought up to the Communist Manifesto, with some preliminary chapters on Hegel.

J. Elster, Making Sense of Marx (Cambridge, 1985). A sharp, hard-headed view of what in Marx makes sense from a 'rational choice' perspective.

J. Elster, An Introduction to Marx (Cambridge, 1986). An excellent introduction - rigorous and accessible.

M.Evans, Karl Marx (London and New York, 1975). An excellent introduction, concentrating on the historical and political.

J.Ferraro, Freedom and Determination in History according to Marx and Engels (New York, 1992). Argues for the dialectic between freedom and determinism as the core of Marx's thought.

I.Fetscher, Marx and Marxism (New York, 1971). Contains articles on the continuity in Marx's thought, bureaucracy, future communist society, and so on.

B.Fine, Marx's Capital (London, 1975). A good short introduction.

E.Fischer, Marx in His Own Words (London, 1970). A slight, but faithful, runthrough of Marx's main ideas.

I.Forbes, Marx and the New Individual (Boston, 1990). A thorough discussion of the sense in which Marx was an individualist.

E.Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man (New York, 1963). This introduction to selections from the '1844 Manuscripts' portrays Marx as a humanist and existentialist thinker.

A. Gamble and P. Walton, From Alienation to Surplus Value (London, 1972). Concentrates on labour and surplus value as unifying themes in Marx's works with special attention paid to the Grundrisse and Theories of Surplus Value.

R. Garaudy, Karl Marx: The Evolution of His Thought (London, 1967). A reliable and readable account by (at the time of writing) an orthodox communist.

H. Gemkow and others, Karl Marx. A Biography (Berlin, 1970). A well-docu- mented, but quite uncritical, piece of hagiography.

A. Gilbert, Marx's Politics. Communists and Citizens (London, 1981). Re-evaluates Marx's theory and practice in the 1848 revolutions and finds him a protoLeninist.

Marx's law when applied to monopoly capitalism.

G. Girardi, Marxism and Christianity (Dublin, 1968). An examination of the possibilities of dialogue between Marxism and Christianity.

M. Godelier, Rationality and Irrationality in Economics (London, 1972). Examines the basic structures of Marx's economic views.

K.Graham, Karl Marx, Our Contemporary (Hemel Hempstead, 1992). An excellent short analytic discussion of Marx's main ideas and their contemporary relevance.

A.J. Gregor, A Survey of Marxism (New York, 1965). The first few chapters discuss the philosophical aspects of Marx.

S.Hook, Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx (New York, 1933). Still a good

introduction to the more systematic parts of Marx's thought.

S. Hook, From Hegel to Marx, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, 1962). A study of the relationships of Hegel and Marx and the young Hegelians.

D. Horowitz (ed.), Marx and Modern Economics (London, 1968). Contains essays examining the relevance today of particularly the more abstract of Marx's economic theories.

D. Howard, The Development of the Marxian Dialectic (Chicago, 1972). A reliable treatment of Marx's early thought.

R. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, Vol. 1 (London and Pittsburgh, 1975). A most detailed examination of Marx's activities during 1848.

J. Hyppolite, Studies on Marx and Hegel (London, 1969). Contains profound assessments of Marx's critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and of Capital.

J. Hampden Jackson, Marx, Proudhon and European Socialism (New York, 1962). A reliable short account of the relations between the two men.

R. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, 2 vols (London, 1974 and 1983). A thorough examination defending Marx against the charge of totalitarianism.

B. Jessop, ed., Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments, 4 vols.

careful criticism by an Oxford philosopher.

P. Kain, Marx and Modern Political Theory (Lanham, 1993). Compares Marx to earlier theorists, to pluralism, and to feminism.

E. Kamenka, The Ethical Foundation of Marxism, 2nd ed. (London, ^72). A description and critique of Marx's ethics from an analytical philosophical position.

E. Kamenka, Marxist Ethics (London, 1969). A brief analysis of the Marxian ethical tradition.

E. P. Kandel, Marx and Engels. The Organizers of the Communist League (Moscow, 1953). Contains much information on Marx in the late 1840s.

K.J. Kenafick, Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx (Melbourne, 1948: privately printed). A lengthy account of their relationship by a disciple of Bakunin.

A.C. Kettle, Karl Marx, Founder of Modern Communism (London, 1963). A good short biography by a communist.

L.Kolakowski, Marxism and Beyond (London, 1968). Contains essays highlighting the relationship between the individual and history in Marx's thought.

L. Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1978). A thorough discussion of Marx's thought from a mainly philosophical point of view.

H. Koren, Marx and the Authentic Man (Duquesne, 1967). A short description of Marx's 'humanist' conception of man.

K Korsch, Karl Marx (New York, 1936). An insightful biography by an excommunist.

K. Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (London, 1971). A brilliant reassessment of the Hegelian elements in Marx.

H. Lefebvre, The Sociology of Marx (London, 1968). An excellent introduction to Marx's sociology.

G. Leff, The Tyranny of Concepts (London, 1961). An important critique of Marx's materialist conception of history.

J. Lewis, The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (London, 1965). A good mediumlength biography presenting Marx in a favourable light.

J. Lewis, The Marxism of Marx (London, 1972). A wise and humane commentary

G. Lichtheim, From Marx to Hegel (New York, 1971). Contains a series of essays on the Hegelian-Marxist tradition up to the present day.

N. Lobkowicz, Theory and Practice, The History of a Marxist Concept (Notre Dame, 1967). An examination of Marx's concept of 'praxis' against a Young Hegelian background.

N. Lobkowicz (ed.), Marx and the Western World (Notre Dame, 1967). A large collection of articles on the relevance of Marx's thought today.

D. Lovell, Marx's Proletariat: The Making of a Myth (New York, 1988). Examines Marx's concept of the proletariat and why his expectations of it proved misguided.

K. Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (London, ^65). A wide-ranging account of nineteenth-century German philosophy: Marx is considered, among many others, in the Hegelian tradition.

(i. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness (London, 1970). An extremely influential re-emphasis of Hegel's influence on Marx.

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J. Maguire, Marx's Paris Writings (Dublin, 1972). A well-informed and thorough commentary on the writings of 1844.

J. Maguire, Marx's Theory of Politics (Cambridge, 1978). Combines history and analysis in a most satisfying way.

E. Mandel, The Formation of Marx's Economic Thought (London, 1971). An excellent analysis of the development of Marx's economic thought up to and including the Grundrisse.

H. Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (London, 1941). Contains an account of Marx's notion of labour.

B. Mazlish, The Meaning of Karl Marx (New York, 1984). A short introduction - idiosyncratic and stimulating. Concentrates on Marx's early writings to read him as a revolutionary millenarian.

D. McLellan, The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx (London, 1969). An examination of the social and political thought of the Young Hegelians and its influence on the genesis of Marx's thought.

D.McLellan, Marx Before Marxism (London and New York, 1970). A detailed description of the development of Marx's thought up to and including the

1X44 Manuscripts.

D.McLellan, The Thought of Karl Marx (London and New York, 1971). A chronological and thematic introduction to Marx's thought.

D.McLellan, Karl Marx: Interviews and Recollections (London, 1981). A collection

of personal reminiscences of Marx.

R. L. Meek, Studies in the Labour Theory of Value (London, 1956). Best treatment in English of this subject.

F. Mehring, Karl Marx (London, 1936). The classical biography of Marx; somewhat out of date and slighdy hagiographical.

A.G. Meyer, Marxism: The Unity of Theory and Practice. A Critical Essay

(Cambridge, Mass., 1954). Presents a functional interpretation of Marx's sociology.

D.Mitrany, Marx against the Peasant (London, 1951). An attack on the views of Marx and his followers on the peasants.

A.C. Maclntyre, Marxism: an Interpretation (London, 1953). A short and sharp philosophical assessment of Marx.

S.Moore, From Marx to Markets (Philadelphia, 1993). Claims to show that Marx's materialist conception of history should have led him to an espousal of markets.

M. Morishima, Marx's Economics (Cambridge, 1973). A complex examination of Marx's theoretical economics.

B. Nicolaievski and O. Maenchen-Helfen, Karl Marx, Man and Fighter (London, 1933; 3rd ed. 1973). An excellent biography emphasising Marx's political activities.

A. Oakley, Marx's Critique of Political Economy: Intellectual Sources and Evolution, 2

1971). An original and well-documented study of alienation in Marx, paying close attention to the way Marx uses his concepts.

li. Oilman, Dialectical Investigations (New York, 1993). A good introduction to Marx's dialectic with an application to seven case studies.

S. Padover, Karl Marx, An Intimate Biography (New York, 1978). Hostile to Marx's ideas, but good on the area suggested by the tide.

F. Pappenheim, The Alienation of Modern Man (New York, 1959). Puts Marx's concept of alienation in a modern context.

I'. van Parijs, Marxism Recycled (Cambridge, 1993). A sharp collection of essays in the analytical mode.

R. Payne, Marx, A Biography (London, 1968). A lot of information on Marx's private life, though the author's understanding of Marx's ideas is extremely deficient.

R. Peffer, Marxism, Morality and Social Justice (Princeton, r99o). An excellent, thorough, analytical discussion.

G. Petrovic, Marx in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Garden City, 1967). Emphasises the humanist relevance of Marx today.

J.Plamenatz, German Marxism and Russian Communism (London, 1954). Contains one of the classical discussions of historical materialism as oudined in Marx's

Preface.

J.Plamenatz, Man and Society, Vol. 2 (London, 1963). A clear, critical analysis of the main social and political themes in Marx.

J.Plamenatz, Karl Marx's Philosophy of Man (Oxford, 1975). A long, careful analytical discussion.

K.R. Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies Vol. 2 (London, 1952). An attack on Marx as a totalitarian thinker.

M.Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reintepretation of Marx's Critical Theory (New York, 1993). A splendid reconstruction of Marx's social theory, based upon the Grundrisse.

S.Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature (Oxford, 1978). A marvellous book researching the origin of Marx's metaphors, quotations, literary allusions, etc.

ERaddatz, Karl Marx, A Political Biography (London, 1978). A good, racy read, but not much on Marx as a thinker.

Joan Robinson, An Essay in Marxian Economics (London, 1942). An impressive attempt to revitalise Marx's main economic doctrines.

R. Rosdolsky, The Making of Marx's 'Capital' (London, 1977). An intensive, pioneering study of the place of the Grundrisse in Marx's intellectual development.

N. Rothenstreich, Basic Problems of Marx's Philosophy (New York, 1965). A philosophical commentary on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach.

M. Rubel and M. Manale, Marx without Myth (Oxford, 1975). A detailed chronology of Marx's life and work.

D.Ryazanov, Karl Marx, Man, Thinker and Revolutionist (New York, 1927). A wellinformed series of lectures on Marx's life.

G. Sabine, Marxism (New York, 1958). A rather over-schematised short discussion. F. Salter, Karl Marx and Modern Socialism (London, 1921). Describes Marx's ideas

and their influence on the growth of labour movements.

J. Sanderson, An Interpretation of the Political Ideas of Marx and Engels (London, 1969). A short book which seeks to put together the main texts of Marx and Engels on historical materialism, the state, revolution and future communist society.

R. Schlesinger, Marx, His Time and Ours (London, 1950). An important book investigating the continued relevance of Marx's ideas for the twentieth

D.Schweickart, Against Capitalism (Cambridge, 1993). Advocates a market socialism with decentralised investment planning and workplace democracy, loosely based on Marx.

J. Seigel, Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life (Princeton, 1978). A very interesting attempt to marry a psycho-analytical approach with a scholarly discussion of the development of Marx's ideas.

T.Shanin (ed.), Late Marx and the Russian Road (New York, 1983). Offers a re-

evaluation of Marx's studies of Russia and the implications for his thought as a whole.

P.Sloan, Marx and the Orthodox Economists (Oxford, 1973). A defence of Marx against subsequent economic thinking.

J.Spargo, Karl Marx, His Life and Works (New York, 1910). The first biography of Marx in English.

C.J. S. Sprigge, Karl Marx (London, 1938; New York, 1962). A short biography. Elena A. Stepanova, Karl Marx (Moscow, 1962). A short piece of pure hagiography.

W.Suchting, Marx: An Introduction (London, 1983). A thorough introduction concentrating on historical materialism and Capital.

P.M. Sweeney, The Theory of Capitalist Development (New York, 1942). The best modern continuation of Marx's economic ideas.

P. Thomas, Karl Marx and the Anarchists (London, 1980). A full account of Marx's relations with anarchists and anarchist thought.

R. Tucker, Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1961). A highly original

D. Turner, On the Philosophy of Marx (Dublin, 1968). A slight book, written mainly for philosophers.

V Venables. Human Nature, the Marxian View (New York, 1945). One of the best statements of the Marxist view of man.

A. Walker, Marx: His Theory and Its Context (Rivers Oram, 1990). Places Marx's politics and economics in their intellectual and historical context.

P. Walton and S. Hall, eds., Situating Marx (London, 1972). A series of essays centring on Marx's Grundrisse.

E. Wilson, To the Finland Station (London, 1940; latest ed. 1970). A very readable (though occasionally inaccurate) account of the ideas of Marx as well as those of his predecessors and successors.

B. Wolfe, Marxism: 100 years in the Life of a Doctrine (London, 1967). A study of the evolution of Marxist doctrines with sections on Marx's political ideas in 1848 and 1871.

M.Wolfson, Karl Marx (New York, 1971). A short critique of Marx's main economic doctrines.

A.Wood, Karl Marx (London, 1981). An excellent discussion of the philosophical issues contained in Marx's work.

D.Wright, The Trouble with Marx (New Rochelle, 1967). A 'no holds barred' attack on Marx's ideas of history and economics.

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K. Marx, F. Engels, Gesamtausgabe (= M E G A ) (Frankfurt, 1927 ff.).

Aus dem Literarischen Nachlass von K. Marx, F. Engels, F. Lassalle, ed. F. Mehring (Stuttgart, 1902).

K. Marx, F. Engels, Werke (= M E W ) , 39 vols (Berlin, 1956 ff.).

K. Marx, Werke - Schriften - Briefe (ed. Lieber, Furth, Kautsky), 6 vols (Stuttgart, 1962 ff.).

K. Marx, F. Engels, Ausgewahlte Schriften in 2 Banden (Berlin, 1952).

K.Marx, F. Engels, Studienausgabe in 4 Banden, ed. Fetscher (Frankfurt, 1966). K. Marx, Texte zu Methode und Praxis ed., G. Hillmann 3 (Reinbek, 1966).

K. Marx, Ausgewahlte Schriften, ed. B. Goldenburg (Munich, 1962). K. Marx, Atiswahl, ed. F. Borkenau (Frankfurt, 1956).

K. Marx, Die Friihschriften, ed. S. Landshut and J. Mayer (Stuttgart, 1932).

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K.Marx, Bildung and Erziehung, ed. H. Wittig (Paderborn, 1968). K. Marx, F. Engels, Uber Literatur und Kunst (Berlin, 1967).

K Marx, Dokumente seines Lebens (Berlin, 1970).

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Freiligraths Briefwechsel mit Marx und Engels, 2 vols, ed. Manfred Haeckel (Berlin, 1968).

Karl Marx Privat, ed. Wolfgang Schwerbrock (Munich, 1962). Familie Marx in Briefen, ed. Manfred Miiller (Berlin, 1966).

Briefe und Dokumente der Familie Marx aus den Jahren 1862-1873, ed- B. Andreas (Hanover, 1962).

Liebknechts Briefwechsel mit Marx und Engels, ed. G. Eckert (The Hague, 1963).

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Max Adler, Marx als Denver (Vienna, 1921).

V Adoratski, Karl Marx, Eine Sammlung von Erinnerungen und Aufsatzen (Moscow, r934)-

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