"The Marx-Engels Reader" (Robert C. Tucker, Editor)

I examined the Table of Contents from the Second Edition and read the introductions to each text. I recommend the subset below for reading and discussion at this meeting. I am providing a list [and the page count] of the texts we can discuss, which total 298 pages. If you have more time do so or interest in reading additional texts, I'm suggesting those as the BONUS PICKS (#1: +57 pages; and #2: +53 pages) below. Of course, feel free to read any of the other texts in the volume (many of the letters are just a few pages long), but we will focus our discussion on the primary selections and those who read the bonus picks can brief out any salient points for the rest of us. If you disagree with any of these selections or would like to add something to the primary list for discussion at the meeting, just send a message to the group and we can make a decision then.

SELECTIONS

Marx on the History of His Opinions (Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy) - p. 3 [4 pages]
On the Jewish Question - p. 26 [26 pages]
Alienation and Social Classes (from The Holy Family) - p. 133 [3 pages]
Wage Labor and Capital - p. 203 [14 pages]
Capital, Volume One - p. 294 [145 pages]
Capital, Volume Three - p. 439 [4 pages]
Manifesto of the Communist Party - p. 469 [32 pages]
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League - p. 501 [11 pages]
Inaugural Address of the Working Men's International Association - p. 512 [8 pages]
Working-Class Manchester (from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844) - p. 579 [7 pages]
Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx - p. 681 [2 pages]
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - p. 683 [35 pages]
On the Division of Labor in Production - p. 718 [7 pages]

BONUS PICK #1 [57 pages]

The German Ideology: Part I - p. 146 [57 pages]

BONUS PICKS #2 [53 pages]

The Tactics of Social Democracy (Engels' Introduction to Marx's The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850) - p. 556 [21 pages]
The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850 - p. 586 [8 pages]
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - p. 594 [24 pages]

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