Later Political Writings

Later Political Writings brings together new translations of Marx’s most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. Marx challenged poitical theory to its very fundamentals, as his works do not follow traditional models for exploring politics theoretically. In his introduction, Terrell Carver situates Marx in a politics of democratic constitutionalism and revolutionary communism. The works are presented here complete, according to the first editions or the earliest manuscript state, and include the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Preface of 1859 to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, The Civil War in France, and the little-known Notes on Adolph Wagner. More than most political theorists, Marx made contemporary politics the focus for his theoretical work. He created a distinctive kind of political theory, and this volume makes it accessible today.

• Fresh translations based on first editions or first state of the manuscript • Includes some little-known works • Edited and introduced by a leading Marx scholar

Introduction; Chronology; Manifesto of the Communist Party: the eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; ‘Introduction’ (1857) to the Grundrisse; ‘Preface’ to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy; The Civil War in France; Critique of the Gotha Programme; Notes on Adolph Wagner.