Readings:

Overview and Early Writings:

F. Engels "Karl Marx"

G.C. Comninel "Marx's Context"

Marx's Political Writings:

Manifesto of the Communist Party

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Class Struggles in France

The Civil War in France

Interview with Marx, 1871

Hague Congress Reports and Documents

"Political Indifferentism"

Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke and Others

Marx's Critique of Political Economy:

"Labour Rent" (Section II of Ch. 47, Vol III of Capital) 

V.I. Lenin:

What Is To Be Done

Rosa Luxemburg:

"Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy"