Marx publishes A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

In journalism prompted by the Taiping upheaval and European politics, Marx linked China’s anti-dynastic rebellion to the commercial and political order of Europe. His account sometimes repeated...

Marx’s journalism condemned British violence and economic extraction but also framed colonial rule as a destructive force that would remake Indian society. The writing contains Eurocentric assumptions...

Engels followed Spain’s revolutionary crisis and examined the roles of military officers, popular mobilization, and liberal factions. His reporting linked local struggles to wider European contests...

During the global commercial crisis of 1857, Marx drafted extensive notebooks on money, production, circulation, and capital. The manuscripts remained unpublished until the twentieth century and...

The panic of 1857 disrupted trade and employment across the Atlantic world. Their correspondence connected market turmoil to industrial production and popular hardship; Marx used the crisis as an...

Engels examined the strategic rivalry around Italian unification and Austria. The work illustrates his sustained interest in military affairs and national struggles, while also showing the limits of a...

Marx’s long polemic answered accusations by Carl Vogt and exposed factional conflict among European exiles. The book demonstrates how political movements were shaped by journalism, personal...

As the U.S. Civil War began, Marx and Engels followed the conflict as a struggle whose outcome would shape slavery, labor, and democracy. Marx’s later journalism supported emancipation and...

Marx argued that the conflict could not be understood apart from slavery and the political power of the slaveholding class. His reporting connected emancipation in the United States to workers’...

Mary Burns, Engels’s long-time partner and a working-class Irish woman, died suddenly. She had introduced Engels to working-class neighborhoods and lives in Manchester, but her own history is sparsely...