Marx-Engels Collected Works,Volume 06 - Marx and Engels: 1845-1848

Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others, consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and issued between 1975 and 2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York City). Politics,Marxism Contents 2 Preface 12 1. F. Engels. The Festival of Nations in London 30 2. F. Engels. The State of Germany 42 3. K. Marx. Statement 61 4. K. Marx and F. Engels. Circular Against Kriege 62 Section One. How Communism Became Love- Sick 63 Section Two. The Volks- Tribuns Political Economy and Its Attitude Towards Young America 68 Section Three. Metaphysical Trumpetings 71 Section Four. Flirtations with Religion 73 SectionFive. Kriege's Personal Stand 77 5. F. Engels. Violation of the Prussian Constitution 79 6. K. Marx and F. Engels. Letter from the Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee to G. A. Köttgen 81 7. F. Engels. The Prussian Bank Question 84 8. K. Marx and F. Engels. Address of the German Democratic Communists of Brussels to Mr. Feargus O'Connor 85 9. F. Engels. Government and Opposition in France 88 10. F. Engels. The Prussian Constitution 91 11. K. Marx. Declaration Against Karl Grün 99 12. F. Engels. The Constitutional Question in Germany 102 1 102 II. The Status Quo and the Bourgeoisie 105 13. F. Engels. Protective Tariffs or Free Trade System 119 14. F. Engels. Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith 123 15. K. Marx. The Poverty of Philosophy. Answer to t h e Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon 132 Foreword 136 Chapter I. A Scientific Discovery Ill § 1. The Opposition Between Use Value and Exchange Value Ill § 2. Constituted Value or Synthetic Value 147 § 3. Application of the Law of the Proportionality of Value 171 A) Money 171 B) Surplus Left by Labour 179 Chapter II. The Metaphysics of Political Economy 188 § 1. The Method 188 First Observation 189 Second Observation 192 Third Observation 193 Fourth Observation 194 Fifth Observation 196 Sixth Observation 197 Seventh and Last Observation 201 § 2. Division of Labour and Machinery 205 § 3. Competition and Monopoly 217 § 4. Property or Rent 224 § 5. Strikes and Combinations of Workers 233 16. F. Engels. The Decline and Approaching Fall of Guizot. 240 17. K. Marx. The Communism of t h e Rheinischer Beobachter 247 18. F. Engels. German Socialism in Verse and Prose 262 1. Karl Beck. Lieder vom armen Mann, or the Poetry of True Socialism 262 2. Karl Grün, Über Göthe vom menschlichen Standpunkte. Darmstadt, 1846 276 19. F. Engels. The Economic Congress 301 20. K. Marx. The Protectionists, the Free Traders and the Working Class 306 21. F. Engels. The Free Trade Congress at Brussels 309 22. F. Engels. The Communists and Karl Heinzen 318 First Article 318 Second Article 325 23. F. Engels. The Commercial Crisis in England. The Chartist Movement. Ireland 334 24. F. Engels. The Masters and the Workers in England. To the Worker Editors of L'A teller 337 25. K. Marx. Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality. A Contribution to German Cultural History. Contra Karl Heinzen 339 26. F. Engels. Principles of Communism 368 27. F. Engels. The Agrarian Programme of t h e Chartists 385 28. F. Engels. The Chartist Banquet in Connection with the Elections of 1847 388 29. F. Engels. The Manifesto of M. de Lamartine 391 30. F. Engels. The Civil War in Switzerland 394 31. F. Engels. The Reform Movement in France 402 32. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement 410 33. F. Engels. Split in the Camp. 412 34. K. Marx and F. Engels. On Poland. Speeches at the International Meeting Held in London on November 29, 1847 to Mark the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Uprising of 1830 415 Marx's Speech 415 Engels'Speech 416 35. F. Engels. The Anniversary of t h e Polish Revolution of 1830 418 36. F. Engels. Reform Banquet at Lille. 420 37. F. Engels. Reform Movement in France.n 424 38. K. Marx. Remarks on the Article by M. Adolphe Bartels 429 39. K. Marx. Lamartine and Communism 431 40. F. Engels. The Réforme and the National 433 41. F. Engels. Louis Blanc's Speech at the Dijon Banquet 436 42. F. Engels. Chartist Agitation 439 43. K. Marx. Wages 442 [ A] 442 [ B] Additions 442 I. Aktinson 442 Il. Carlyle 443 III. M'Culloch 443 IV. John Wade 446 V. Babbage 447 VI. Andrew Ure , 447 VII. Rossi 448 [ VIII]. Cherbuliez 448 [ lX]. Bray. Savings Banks 448 [ C] ., 449 I. How Does the Growth of the Productive Forces Affect Wages? 449 II. Competition Between Workers and Employers 450 III. Competition Among the Workers Them selves 451 IV. Fluctuations of Wages 451 V. Minimum Wage 452 VI. Suggestions for Remedies 453 VII. Workers' Associations 462 VIII. Positive Aspect of Wage Labour 463 44. F. Engels. The "Satisfied" Majority. 465 45. F. Engels. The Coercion Bill for Ireland and the Chartists 472 46. F. Engels. Feargus O'Connor and the Irish People 475 47. K. Marx. Speech on the Question of Free Trade Delivered to the Democratic Association of Brussels at Its Public Meeting of January 9,1848 477 48. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement. [ The Fraternal Democrats to the Working Classes of Great Britain a n d Ireland] 493 49. K. Marx. The Situation in France 495 50. F. Engels. Extraordinary Revelations. 496 51. F. Engels. The Chartist Movement. [ Meeting in Support of the National Petition] 500 52. K. Marx and F. Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party 504 I. Bourgeois and Proletarians 509 II. Proletarians and Communists 524 III. Socialist and Communist Literature 534 1. Reactionary Socialism 534 a. Feudal Socialism 534 b. Petty- Bourgeois Socialism 536 c. German or " True", Socialism 537 2. Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism 540 3. Critical- Utopian Socialism and Communism 541 IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties 545 53. F. Engels. The Movements of 1847 547 54. F. Engels. The Beginning of the End in Austria 557 55. K. Marx. The Débat social of February 6 on die Democratic Association 564 56. F. Engels. Three New Constitutions 567 57. K. Marx and F. Engels. On the Polish Question 572 Speech by Mr. Karl Marx 572 Speech by Mr. Frederick Engels 576 58. F. Engels. A Word to the Riforma 580 59. F. Engels. Revolution in Paris 583 60. F. Engels. To the Editor of The Northern Star 586 61. K. Marx. To the Editor of La Réforme 591 62. K. Marx. Persecution of Foreigners in Brussels 594 63. F. Engels. The Situation in Belgium 596 FROM THE PREPARATORY MATERIALS 600 1. K. Marx. Protectionists 600 2. K. Marx. Demand 601 3. K. Marx. Draft Plan for Section III of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 603 4. K. Marx. Page from the Rough Draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 604 5. K. Marx. Notes on the Arrest, Maltreatment and Expulsion of Wilhelm Wolff by the Brussels Police 608 APPENDICES 612 1. Rules of the Communist League ( June 1847) 600 2. A Circular of the First Congress of the Communist League to the League Members. June 9,1847 616 3. Note by Marx on the Formation of the Brussels Community and Circleof the Communist League. August 5,1847 628 4. The Central Authority to the League 629 5. The Northern Star on the Meeting in London on November 29, 1847 to Mark the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Insurrection of 1830 643 6. Address of the Democratic Association of Brussels to the Swiss People 651 7. Minutes of Engels' Lecture to the London German Workers' Educational Society on November 30, 1847 654 8. Minutes of Marx's Report to the London German Workers' Educational Society on November 30, 1847 657 9. Minutes of Engels' Lecture to the London German Workers' Educational Society on December 7,1847 659 10. Rulesof the Communist League ( December 1847) 660 11. From the Report of the Deutsche- Brüsseler- Zeitung on the New Year's Eve Celebration of the German Workers' Society in Brussels. December 31,1847 666 12. The Association Démocratique of Brussels to the Fraternal Democrats Assembling in London 667 13. From the Deutsche- Brüsseler- Zeitung's Report on the Meeting of the Democratic Association of February 20, 1848 670 14. From the Deutsche- Brüsseler- Zeitung's Report on the Brussels Celebration of the Second Anniversary of the 1846 Cracow Insurrection 671 15. To the Citizens, Members of the Provisional Government of the French Republic 672 16. To Mr. Julian Harney, Editor of The Northern Star, Secretary of the Fraternal Democrats Society, London 674 17. Ferdinand Flocon to Marx in Brussels. March 1, 1848 676 18. Order of Leopold I, King of the Belgians, for Marx's Expulsion from Belgium 677 19. Decision of the Central Authority of the Communist League, March 3,1848 , 678 20. Travel Document Issued to Marx on His Expulsion from Belgium 680 21. Minutes of the Meeting of the Paris Community of the Communist League, March 8, 1848 681 22. Minutes of the Meeting of the Paris Circle of the Communist League. March 9,1848 683 23. Announcement by t he German Workers' Club in Paris 685 24. Announcement of the Regular Meeting of the German Workers' Club in Paris 685 NOTES AND INDEXES 688 Notes 688 Name Index 742 Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 764 Index of Periodicals 778 Subject Index 782 Illustrations 64 First page of the lithographed " Circular Against Kriege" 64 Cartoon by Engels of Frederick William IV making the royal speech at the opening of the United Diet in Berlin, April 11, 1847 94 Beginning of Engels' manuscript, " Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith" 124 Cover of the first edition of Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy 134 A page of the Deutsche- Brüsseler- Zeitung with Marx's " Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter" and the beginning of Engels' essays " German Socialism in Verse and Prose" 250 First page of Marx's manuscript " Wages" 444 First page of a separate edition of Marx's " Speech on the Question of Free Trade" ( Brussels, February 1848) 478 Cover of the first German 23- page edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 506 Cover of the 1848 30- page edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 510 Cover of the pamphlet containing the speeches " On the Polish Question" by Marx and Engels 574 Bottom of the page from Marx's manuscript, " Protectionists", with drawings by Engels 578- 106 A page of the rough draft of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 606