The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition | 
| Authors: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Creator: Robert C. Tucker
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 832
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 039309040X
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
EAN: 9780393090406
ASIN: 039309040X
Publication Date: March 19, 1978
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Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight binding, clean, yellowied pages. Cover has shelf-wear Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 788 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Table of Contents The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
Das Kapital (Marx)
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx)
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels)
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)
Essays (Marx):
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English Revolution Appendix:
Karl Marx Biography
Friedrich Engels Biography
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
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Marx-Engels Anthology September 21, 2008
Very in depth reader about the works of Marx and Engels. Gives some historic information on the life Karl Marx and the order in which he wrote most of his works. If all you have read by Marx is the Communist Manifesto then do yourself a favor and pick this book up.
 Caveat: August 7, 2008
The other reviews cover the content, but as for the format (at least in the elder edition this reviewer has), the pages are stubby and short given the length of the binding. Increasing the width by another 1.5'' would have reduced the somewhat crammed text, but Norton must have needed the paper to print other books at the time.
Great ebook: Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels July 3, 2008
Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Includes Capital (Das Kapital) and Communist Manifesto. FREE Authors' biographies and essays in the trial version.
This ebook contains essential works of Marx & Engels. Great digital item!
If you can only have one book on Marx May 30, 2008
then this is really the volume to get. Besides it's Norton: headnotes, footnotes, delicious paper, quality binding, good selections, a good look at Marx as far I can see.
The Marxist Legacy: Not a Theory, but a set of tools May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent compilation of Marx and Engels's works. Tucker's version is one of the foremost used by scholars and educators in the academic setting and is considered one of the best. Although I admittedly have not read all of the works in the reader, I was consistently impressed with the classics such as Capital, Crisis Theory, and the Communist Manifesto (most of which were actually written by Engels, not Marx).
The Marxist legacy lies not in his theories, but in the questions and concerns that he raises regarding other Enlightenment theorists. Indeed, Marx continues in the Enlightenment tradition in that he is deeply committed to science and rationality as a basis for legitimating a certain governmental regime and he has an intense regard for individual rights, which he believes can only be ensured if class differences are eradicated through the elimination of exploitation. Marxists believe that the role of government is to prevent exploitation, although more contemporary theorists such as Roemer have argued that exploitation theory is little more than a distraction from what they should actually worry about--which Roemer believes is domination. Anyone interested in exploitation theory should read Marx and Engels alongside Roemer's "Why should Marxists be interested in exploitation theory?" which is a great companion in helping you scrutinize Marx and Engels's argument.
Although the communist utopia where distributive justice is defined as, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (as opposed to the transition state between capitalism and communism, socialism, has distributive justice defined as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his work") never does emerge as Marx predicts, Marx and Engels do raise some interesting arguments that everyone interested in political philosophy should be familiar with. Although their belief in their own infallibility and the failure of their theories--notably, the crisis theory--to hold up empirically have been used to downplay their relevance, Marx and Engels left behind several important tools with which to critically analyze all other political theories. The concerns they have with the existing system are not altogether irrelevant.
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