The MarX-Files: Resources on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Engels' Major Works
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The MarX-Files

An annotated web guide containing links to the major works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as well as biographies, libraries, labor, cultural and other Marxist resources. Prepared by Derek Stanovsky for his courses, Marx for Beginners and Marx's Capital, taught at Appalachian State University.

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Marx's Major Works:

Capital, volume I, the complete electronic-text.

Chapter 1 of Marx's Capital along with links to Harry Cleaver's Reading Capital Politically (RCP).

Section 1, "The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value." RCP.
Section 2, "The Two-Fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities." RCP.
Section 3, "The Form of Value or Exchange-Value." RCP.
Section 4, "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof."

Annotations to Karl Marx's Capital by Hans Ehrbar.
Capital in Lithographs by Hugo Gellert.
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey.
Reading Notes on Capital, by Michael Hardt.
Study Guide to Capital, volume I, by Harry Cleaver.
Synopsis of Capital, volume I, by Friedrich Engels.
Wikipedia: Capital, volume I (Originally created by students in the Spring 2007 Marx's Capital class).

Capital, volume II.
Capital, volume III.
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Critique of the Gotha Programme.
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.
German Ideology.
Grundrisse.
Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Poverty of Philosophy.
"Theses on Feuerbach."
Wage Labour and Capital.

Engels' Major Works:

Biographical Information:

Biography of Frederick Engels, by V. I. Lenin.
Engles'Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles: An Introduction to Their Lives and Work, by David Riazanov.
Karl Marx Museum in Trier.
Marx-Engels Biographical Archive.
Photo Gallery: Marx, Engels, Family, Homes, and Sketches.
Reflections on Karl Marx and Karl Marx, 1818-1883 by Steven Kreis.

Libraries, Archives, Books and Journals:

Appalachian State Library books by Marx and about Marx.
Economarx, extensive bibliography on Marxian economics.
Illuminations, collection of articles on critical theory and the Frankfurt School.
Journals and Magazines:

Alternative Press Index list of left periodicals and journals.
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society.
Monthly Review.
New Left Review.

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels Werke, complete on-line texts (in German).
Marx-Engels Internet Archive, an extensive collection of on-line texts by Marx and Engels, including:

Marx and Engels Collected Works, an electronic edition of the 47 volume set from International Publishers.

Marxism Mailing List, a list-serve of Marxist scholars and activisits, moderated by Louis Proyect.

Archives of past discussions and most recent messages.
FAQ including: "Aren't capitalists necessary?", "Isn't profit necessary?", "What's the difference between socialism and communism?", "What about human nature?" and "What is historical materialism?"
Quotes from: Friedrich Engels, Antonio Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong, and Karl Marx.

Marxists Internet Archive, texts and information on

Marxist Writers including:

Che Guevara, CLR James, Georg Lukács, Karl Kautsky, Alexandra Kollontai, V. I. Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leon Trotsky.

Marxist History.
Value of Knowledge, from Andy Blunden, with texts by Western Marxists as well as structuralist and poststructuralist writings including works by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Karl Korsch, Jean-François Lyotard, and Herbert Marcuse.

On-line Books on Socialism, Communism and Anarchism from John Mark Okerbloom's On-line Books Page including works by Emma Goldman, and Peter Kropotkin.
Wikiquotes from Karl Marx.

Labor and Left Resources:

Aut-Op-Sy, for information on autonomous Marxism.
Bear-Left link library.
Behind the Label, global justice for garment workers campaign.
Campaign for Labor Rights.
Corporate Watch, holding corporations accountable.
Cyber Picket Line.

World Trade Union Directory including

U.S. Unions:

AFL-CIO home page.
IWW, Wobblies home page.
Jobs With Justice.
SEIU, Service Employees International Union:
The Strategy Center.

Bus Riders Union.

UAW home page.
UNITE!, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.
United Farm Workers home page.

Dollars & Sense, progressive economics monthly.
Indymedia
Institute for Global Communications, links to progressive organizations on the web.
Jim Hightower, Texas' favorite populist.
Labor Activist sites from Open Directory.
Labor and Union News from Yahoo.
LabourStart
Left Business Observer, from Doug Henwood.
The Nation, progressive monthly.
National Labor Committee, in support of human and worker rights.
Naomi Klein.
Michael Moore.
Zero Work.
ZNet.

Culture Links:

Adbusters.
Capital and Labor, Library of Congress exhibit of prints and drawings.
The Internationale as interpreted by Billy Bragg.
Marx Paper Doll, from Download a Revolutionary.
Marx in Soho, a play on history by Howard Zinn.
Marx on eBay.
Marx on YouTube.
Monty Python Karl Marx sketch.
Music for Capital Volume I, from Harry Cleaver.
Rage Against the Machine.
Uncyclopedia on Karl Marx.
Union Songs.
Wikimedia Commons.
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, and his correspondence from the Library of Congress.
Also, Marx's grave at Highgate Cemetery in London and Karl Marx trading cards.

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Last updated August 24, 2009.