Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Principal Dates in the Life of Marx xxx

The Communist Manifesto 1

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Selections) 47

The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (Selections from Chapter 25, Volume I, Capital) 65

Bibliography 95

About the Author

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, to a Jewish middle-class family, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. Friedrich Engels is the author of The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx, published by Wiley.

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