Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels 
The Communist Manifesto 
with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

Edited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this volume features an especially helpful introduction that serves as a guide to Marxist political and economic theory and to placing the specific writings in their contemporary setting. Included are a bibliography and list of important dates in the life of Karl Marx.

Table of Content

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.