Marxism, page 25
[812] David McLellan, Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, p. 422.
[813] Ibid.
[814] Karl Marx-Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters, p. 9.
[815] David McLellan, Karl Marx, p. 353.
[816] Robert Payne, Marx, p 426.
[817] Ibid., p. 327.
[818] Ibid., p. 355.
[819] Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx, p. 271.
[820] Ibid., pp. 270-271
[821] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters, p. 52.
[822] Ibid., p. 81.
[823] Ibid., p. 98.
[824] Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx, p. 277.
[825] See, for example, Frederick Engels, Paul and Laura Lafargue, Correspondence (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House), Volume I, pp. 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 60, 62, 68, 104, 110, 119, 131, 133, 136, 174, 185, 214, 245, 255, 257, 295, 309, 316, 345, 367. There are two additional volumes of their correspondence, for others to explore.
[826] Robert Payne, Marx, pp. 522-531.
[827] Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Halfen, Karl Marx: Man and Fighter, pp. 243-245.
[828] Karl Marx, Letters of Karl Marx, p. 414.
[829] Robert Payne, Marx, p. 295.
[830] Maximilien Rubel and Margaret Manale, Marx Without Myth: A Chronological Study of His Life and Work (Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975), p. 14.
[831] Robert Payne, Marx, p. 321.
[832] Ibid., p. 143.
[833] Ibid., pp. 155-156.
[834] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters, p. 106.
[835] Karl Marx, The Letters of Karl Marx, pp. 163-166.
[836] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (New York: International Publishers, 1947), pp. 100-101; K. Marx and F. Engels, The Holy Family (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House), pp. 78-80, 144.
[837] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 6, p. 350.
[838] Ibid., p. 354.
[839] Robert Payne, Marx, p. 192.
[840] Graeme Duncan, Marx and Mill (Cambridge University Press, 1973), p. ix.
[841] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, pp. 48-52.
[842] Ibid., pp. 48-52.
[843] Frederick Engels, "Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx," Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Volume II (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955), p. 167.
[844] Ibid., pp. 168-169.
[845] Frederick Engels, "Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx," Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Volume II, p. 169.
[846] Franz Mehring, Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966), p. xii.
[847] See, for example, Thomas Sowell, "The Evolutionary Economics of Thorstein Veblen," Oxford Economic Papers, July 1967, pp. 177-198, esp. 182-185.
[848] See Herbert von Beckerath, "Joseph A. Schumpeter as a Sociologist," Schumpeter, Social Scientist, ed. Seymour E. Harris (Harvard University Press, 1951), pp. 112-113.
[849] Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, translated by Talcott Parsons (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), especially pp. 24-25, 55-56, 74-75, 90-91, 183, 277-278.
[850] Sidney Hook, "Spectral Marxism," American Scholar, Spring 1980, p. 271.
[851] For example, Marx referred to Ricardo's "scientific impartiality and love of truth" as "characteristic of him." Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I (Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1919), p. 478n. See also Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (International Library Publishing Co., 1904), pp. 70-71; Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy (International Publishers, 1963), p. 213; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, translated by Dona Torr (International Publishers, 1942), p. 31; Karl Marx, Grundrisse, translated by Martin Nicolaus (Vintage Books, 1973), pp. 252, 326, 651.
[852] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 25; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, p. 102.
[853] Edmunt Wilson, To the Finland Station (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940), p. 292.
[854] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, pp. 226-227, 232; Karl Marx, Capital, Volume II (Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1913), pp. 23, 24, 25; Friedrich Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, edited by Lewis S. Feuer (Anchor Books, 1959), pp. 89-90; Karl Marx, Grundrisse, translated by Martin Nicolaus. p. 684.
[855] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 168.
[856] "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce," Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library, 1937), p. lvii.
[857] Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions (Basic Books, 1980), p. 226.
[858] "Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort only by the united actions of all members of society, can it be set in motion." Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, p. 21. See also Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 684; Karl Marx, Grundrisse, p. 589.
[859] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 637.
[860] Ibid., p. 638.
[861] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume II, p. 439.
[862] Frederick Engels, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State," Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Volume II (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955), p. 314.
[863] See, for example, Thomas Sowell, The Economics and Politics of Race (William Morrow, 1983), Chapters 2, 3, passim.
[864] David Granick, The Red Executive (Doubleday & Co., 1961), Chapter 3.
[865] Thomas Sowell, The Economics and Politics of Race, passim.
[866] Thomas Sowell, "Weber and Bakke and the Presuppositions of 'Affirmative Action'," Wayne Law Review, July 1980, p. 1316n.
[867] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapters XXVI-XXIX.
[868] Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Volume I, pp. 272-273; Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, pp. 85, 213, 346-347, 837n; Karl Marx, Capital, Volume II, p. 22; Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value (International Publishers, 1952), p. 380; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, pp. 437-438, 476; Frederick Engels, Dialectics of Nature (Progress Publishers, 1964), p. 35; Friedrich Engels, "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, pp. 230, 231, 232; Frederick Engels, Paul and Laura Lafargue, Correspondence, Volume I, translated by Yvonne Kapp (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959), p. 313; Friedrich Engels, Engels on Capital, translated & edited by Leonard E. Mins (Inernational Publishers Co., Inc., 1937), p. 8.
[869] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 213.
[870] Ibid., p. 289n.
[871] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, p. 476.
[872] Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital," Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Volume I, pp. 99-101.
[873] Joseph S. Berliner, "Prospects for Technological Progress," Soviet Economy in a New Perspective, Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), pp. 436-442.
[874] Ibid., p. 437.
[875] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume III, p. 124.
[876] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 827; Karl Marx, Capital, Volume II, p. 362.
[877] Karl Marx, Capital, Volume II, p. 415.
[878] Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions, Chapters 3, 8.
[879] Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, Monetary History of the United States, 1876-1960 (Princeton University Press, 1963), Chapter 7, especially pp. 407-419.
[880] See, for example, Murray Rothbard, America's Great Depression (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, Inc., 1972), pp. 213-215.
[881] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works (International Publishers, 1982), Volume 38, p. 275.
[882] Peter F. Drucker, "Pension Fund 'Socialism'," The Public Interest, Winter 1976, p. 4.
[883] See, for example, Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions, pp. 354-355.
[884] Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions, pp. 6-8.
[885] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence, p. 472. See also Ibid., p. 355.
[886] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press, 1948), p. 45.
[887] Friedrich Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, p. 109.
[888] Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, p. 244.
[889] See, for example, Peter T. Bauer, Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion (Harvard University Press, 1981), Chapters 5-7, 14.
[890] "Who can refute a sneer?" by William Paley, in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1968), p. 474.
[891] V. I. Lenin, "What is to be Done?" Selected Works (Foreign Publishing Office, 1952), Volume I, Part 1, p. 233.
[892] Ibid., p. 242.
[893] Ibid., p. 237.
[894] Ibid., p. 317.
[895] Ibid., p. 351.
[896] Ibid., p. 352.
[897] Ibid., p. 392.
[898] Ibid., p. 277. See also V. I. Lenin, "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism," Selected Works, Volume I, Part 1, p. 80.
[899] V. I. Lenin, "The State and Revolution," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 1, p. 227.
[900] V. I. Lenin, "What is to be Done?" Selected Works, Volume I, Part 1, p. 234.
[901] V. I. Lenin, "The State and Revolution," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 1, p. 272.
[902] Ibid., p. 203.
[903] V. I. Lenin, "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 41.
[904] V. I. Lenin, "The State and Revolution," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 1, pp. 205, 220.
[905] Ibid., p. 237.
[906] V. I. Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," Selected Works, Volume I, Part 2, p. 448.
[907] Ibid., p. 450.
[908] V. I. Lenin, Imperialism (International Publishers, 1939), p. 13.
[909] Ibid., p. 29.
[910] Ibid., p. 63.
[911] Ibid.
[912] Ibid., p. 76.
[913] Ibid., p. 13.
[914] Ibid., p. 63.
[915] Ibid., p. 97.
[916] Ibid., p. 38.
[917] Ibid., p. 64
[918] U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975), p. 870.
[919] V. I. Lenin, Imperialism (International Publishers, 1939), p. 64.
[920] V. I. Lenin, "The Impending Catastrophe and how to Combat It," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 1, p. 120.
[921] V. I. Lenin, "The State and Revolution," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 1, pp. 243-244.
[922] Ibid., p. 249.
[923] Ibid., p. 251.
[924] Ibid., p. 304-305.
[925] Ibid., p. 320. See also ibid, p. 244.
[926] V. I. Lenin, "The Fight to Overcome the Fuel Crisis," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 290.
[927] V. I. Lenin, "The Role and Function of Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 695.
[928] V. I. Lenin, "Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 695
[929] Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Lenin (Simon and Schuster, 1964), p. 531.
[930] Ibid., p. 531.
[931] Ibid., p. 535.
[932] V. I. Lenin, "Ninth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 333.
[933] V. I. Lenin, "The Role and Functions of Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 618.
[934] Ibid.
[935] V. I. Lenin, "The Role and Functions of Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 616.
[936] Ibid., p. 617.
[937] V. I. Lenin, "Ninth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)," Selected Works, Volume II, Part 2, p. 333.
[938] "Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, our historians have not yet won even this trivial insight." Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, p. 43. "Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so we can not judge such a period of transformation by its own consciousness..." Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 12.
[939] See, for example, Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, p. 446; Karl Marx, Grundrisse, p. 652. See also, Frederick Engels, Paul and Laura Lafargue, Correspondence, Volume II, p. 82.
[940] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, p. 11.
[941] Svetozar Pejovich, "The End of Planning: The Soviet Union and East European Experience," The Politics of Planning (Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1976), p. 109.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Economics and Philosophy
Chapter 2 The Dialectical Approach
Chapter 3 Philosophic Materialism
Chapter 4 The Marxian Theory of History
Chapter 5 The Capitalist Economy
Chapter 6 Marxian Economic Crises
Chapter 7 Marxian Value
Chapter 8 Political Systems and Revolution
Chapter 9 Marx the Man
Chapter 10 The Legacy of Marx
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