01. Manifesto of the Communist Party
02. Excerpt from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
03. On Historical Materialism
04. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
05. critique of the gotha program
06. Excerpts from Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
07. a history of early christianity
08. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
09. Excerpts from The German Ideology.
10. Excerpt from Toward the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
11. Excerpt from The Communism of the Paper Rheinischer Beobachter.
12. Excerpts from Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
13. Excerpts from The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
14. Excerpts from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
15. Excerpts from The Civil War in France
16. Excerpt from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
17. Letters on Historical Materialism
18. Excerpts from The Peasant War in Germany
19. Letters and Essays on Political Sociology
Required Reading
this is a compilation of short papers and excerpts from larger works, so nothing will be reviewed here. click the chapter names for links to reviews of each work. the paperback itself, or some close facsimile of it, is more or less required reading nowadays for both those satisfied with capitalism and those who would prefer to try something else; whether you end up loving or hating the ideas in this text, you will benefit greatly from taking the time to understand them.