Marxism

PRIMARY SOURCES

Lenin, V. I. The Lenin Anthology. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York: Norton, 1975. Possibly the best one-volume anthology.

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Collected Works. 50 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1975–2004. Imperfectly edited and omits some manuscript writings, but indispensable for English-readers.

——. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). Berlin: Dietz, 1972–1999. Berlin: akademie-Verlag, 1999–. Meticulously edited; will make all previous editions obsolete. Eventually 114 vols. Not to be confused with the "Old MEGA" (1927–1935).

——. The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1978. Possibly the best one-volume anthology.

www.marxists.org. Makes freely available a large collection of works by many authors, beginning with Marx and Engels.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Aronowitz, Stanley, and Peter Bratsis, eds. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Marx's theory of the state, updated.

Avineri, Shlomo, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Slightly outdated but still useful.

Bottomore, Tom, ed. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. 2nd ed. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991. Articles on major topics in Marxism.

Breckman, Warren. Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Shows connections between theological and sociopolitical concerns in the background to Marx.

Carver, Terrell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Articles on various aspects of Marx's theoretical project.

Draper, Hal. The Marx-Engels Cyclopedia. Vol. 1: The Marx-Engels Chronicle: A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels's Life and Activity. Vol. 2: The Marx-Engels Register: A Complete Bibliography of Marx and Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3: The Marx-Engels Glossary: Glossary to the Chronicle and Register, and Index to the Glossary. New York: Schocken, 1985–1986. Indispensable for serious research on Marx.

Fehér, Ferenc, Agnes Heller, and György Márkus. Dictatorship over Needs. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Critical analysis of the "command" society that was Soviet-style socialism.

Hamilton, Richard. The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Attacks Marx and Engels's historical claims.

Harding, Neil. Leninism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. Succinct, highly critical account.

Hook, Sidney. "Marxism." Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 5 vols. New York: Scribners, 1973-1974. Vol 3, pp.146–161. A clear account, reacting against Stalinism. Can also be accessed at www.historyofideas.org.

Jay, Martin. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Charts a course through "Western Marxism."

Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth, and Dissolution. Vol. 1: The Founders. Vol. 2: The Golden Age. Vol. 3. The Breakdown. Translated by P. S. Falla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. A critical account. Vol. 2 is the best volume; its coverage is unduplicated elsewhere.

McLellan, David. The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Edited by David McLellan. London: Macmillan, 1995. Discusses major themes in Marx's thinking, with illustrative Marx texts; also links writings to Marx's biography. Convenient, succinct.

Megill, Allan. Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market). Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Impact of Hegelian philosophy on Marx.

Roemer, John, ed. Analytical Marxism. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Essays by G. A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and others.

Sassoon, Donald. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. New York: New Press, 1996. Socialism, Marxist and not, in twentieth-century Western Europe.

Siegel, Jerrold E. Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life. 1978. Reprint, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. The most intellectually serious biography.

Sim, Stuart. Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Residues of Marxism after the collapse.

Steele, David Ramsay. From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1992. Implications of von Mises's argument against non-market socialism.

Wright, Erik Olin. "What Is Analytical Marxism?" In Rational Choice Marxism, edited by Terrell Carver and Paul Thomas, 11–30. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Definition and defense of analytical Marxism.

Wright, Erik Olin, Andrew Levine, and Elliott Sober. Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History. London and New York: Verso, 1992. Analytical reconstruction of Marxism.

Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford, and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Discusses role of Marxism in anticolonial struggles.