Marx/Engels Collected Works

Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others, consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and issued between 1975 and 2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York City).

The Collected Works contains material written by Marx between 1835 and his death in 1883, and by Engels between 1838 and his death in 1895. The early volumes include juvenilia, including correspondence between Marx and his father, Marx's poetry, and letters from Engels to his sister. Several volumes collect the pair's articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

Other volumes in the Collected Works contain the most important works by Marx and Engels, including The Communist Manifesto, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, and Capital, as well as more obscure pieces, and previously unpublished or untranslated manuscripts. The Collected Works includes 13 volumes of correspondence by the mature Marx and Engels, covering the period from 1844 through 1895.

Although the Collected Works is the most complete collection of the work by Marx and Engels published to date in English, it is not their complete works. A project to publish the pair's complete works in German is expected to require more than 120 volumes.

Volume	Title & Contents	Year Published	ISBN
1	(M) August 1835 – March 1843	1975	0717804070
2	(E) August 1838 – December 1842	1975
3	(M) March 1843 – Aug 1844; (E) May 1843 – June 1844	1975
4	(M/E) 1844–45, incl. Holy Family & Condition of Working Class	1975
5	(M/E) April 1845 – April 1847, including German Ideology	1975
6	(M/E) 1845–48, including Poverty of Philosophy and Manifesto	1976
7	(M/E) 1848, articles for Neue Rheinische Zeitung	1977
8	(M/E) 1848–49, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung	1977
9	(M/E) 1849, articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung	1977
10	(M/E) 1849–51, including Peasant War in Germany	1978
11	(M/E) 1851–53, including Eighteenth Brumaire	1979
12	(M/E) 1853–54, mainly on British Colonialism	1979
13	(M/E) 1854–55, re Revolutionary Spain and Crimean War	1980
14	(M/E) 1855–56, incl. material on British politics and Crimean War	1980
15	(M/E) 1856–58, mainly Europe and India	1986
16	(M/E) 1858–60, mainly events in Europe	1980
17	(M/E) 1859–60, including Herr Vogt and military matters	1981
18	(M/E) 1857–62, Articles for Encyclopaedia	1987
19	(M/E) 1861–64, including material on American Civil War	1984
20	(M/E) 1864–68, including Value, Prices and Profit	1985
21	(M/E) 1867–70, re International Workingmen's Association	1985
22	(M/E) 1870–71, re Franco-Prussian War	1986
23	(M/E) 1871–74, re International, Bakunin, Housing Question	1988
24	(M/E) 1874–83, Crit. / Gotha Prog. & Utopian & Scientific	1989
25	(E) Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature	1987	0717805255
26	(E) 1882–89, including Origin of the Family, etc.	1990
27	(E) 1890–95, re Europe	1990
28	(M) Economic Works, 1857–1861	1986
29	(M) Economic Works, 1857–1861	1987
30	(M) Economic Works, 1861–1863	1988
31	(M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts	1989
32	(M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts	1989
33	(M) 1861–63, Economic Manuscripts	1991
34	(M) Economic Works, 1861–1864	1994
35*	(M) Capital, Volume I	1996	0717805360
36	(M) Capital, Volume II	1997
37	(M) Capital, Volume III	1998	0717805379
38	(M/E) 1844–51, Letters	1982
39	(M/E) 1852–55, Letters	1983
40	(M/E) 1856–59, Letters	1983
41	(M/E) 1860–64, Letters	1985
42	(M/E) 1864–68, Letters	1987
43	(M/E) 1868–70, Letters	1988
44	(M/E) 1870–73, Letters	1989
45	(M/E) 1874–79, Letters	1991
46	(M/E) 1880–83, Letters	1992
47	(E) 1883–86, Letters	1995
48	(E) 1887–90, Letters	2001	0717805484
49	(E) 1890–92, Letters	2001	0717805492
50	(E) 1892–95, Letters	2004	0717805506

Key: (M) Marx, (E) Engels, (M/E) Marx and Engels

(*) – This volume has an errata available on the Lawrence and Wishart web site.

See also

• Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the complete works of Marx and Engels in German
• The Karl Marx Library, an aborted 13 volume series edited by Saul K. Padover, terminated in 1977

External links

• "Index to Marx/Engels Collected Works," Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists/org