Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 10

Author: Central Committee of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute of Translation
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Publish Date: 1998-03-01
Features: This volume includes political writings, party documents, current affairs commentaries, correspondence, and book reviews by Marx and Engels written from mid-August 1849 to late June 1851. During this period, the revolutions in the continental European countries of 1848-1849, and the European revolution began to enter a low ebb. After experiencing a major crisis, capitalism started to show signs of recovery and soon moved towards prosperity. In the second half of 1849, Marx and Engels. At this time, their primary concern was consolidating the organization of the Communist League under the new circumstances, strengthening party work, and making a comprehensive theoretical summary of the 1848-1849 revolution as quickly as possible. The documents included in this volume correspond to part of the literature in Volume 7 of the first edition of the Marx-Engels Collected Works and Volume 44, which also belongs to this time period. This volume includes 8 new documents, with 5 written by Marx and Engels: "Estimate of the Profit and Circulation of the New Rheinische Zeitung, Politische Wirtschaftliche Zeitung" and "Notes added to the poem "For the Re-publication of Louis Menard." Appendix includes 3 documents: "Report on the speech delivered by F. Engels at the banquet commemorating the second anniversary of the French February Revolution on February 25, 1850" and "Receipt of the Social Democratic Emigrant Committee dated September 20, 1850." According to the editorial principles of this Collected Works, some documents and private letters will be included in the corresponding later volumes.