Marx/Engels' minor works

[RedWorker]

What are some of Marx/Engels/Lenin/...'s most interesting minor works? Stuff such as letters, programmes, short books and other documents. Especially if they express some controversial or surprising ideas. They can be either political or not.

[Ritzy Cat]

Wage Labour and Capital if you haven't read it already, although probably not considered a "minor" work

Concluding passage from "The Poverty of Philosophy" is interesting. Marx-Engels reader only includes this named as "The Coming Upheavel"

(a letter to one of his close friends, 1852)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/letters/52_03_05-ab.htm

I do like to look through Marx's minor works as well when I am not feeling up to gorging on a volume of Capital or something of the like.

[RedWorker]

I've already read it. Right, I'm looking for stuff that is more minor than such a work as Wage Labor and Capital. That letter is good, though I also had already read it.

"The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat"... so, was Marx a determinist or not!? I had considered historical materialism to be deterministic, but a couple people here rejected that view.

[Ritzy Cat]

Well, I guess you could just patrol marxists.org

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/date/index.htm

Literally a whole section for Marx & Engels' letters. Indulge!

[Creative Destruction]

Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts are interesting.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/mathematical-manuscripts/

[Turinbaar]

Here is a compilation of Marx's early poetic attempts.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Young_Marx.pdf

His works on Epicurus are a necessary read for a discussion of Marx and free will.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/

[Creative Destruction]

Here is a compilation of Marx's early poetic attempts.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Young_Marx.pdf


Laura Lafargue, for example, wrote, "My father treated his verses very disrepectfully; whenever my parents mentioned them, they would laugh to their heart' content."


lol yeah

[Redistribute the Rep]

He exchanged letters with Abraham Lincoln :

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

[RedWorker]

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm

[Dodo]

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm

I was going to post that

[RedWorker]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_09_21.htm

[motion denied]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_09_21.htm

this is very good

[David Warner]

"The Critique of the Gotha Programme" is fascinating. One of Marx's shorter works but, if I remember correctly, this is the one where Marx first introduces the concept of the "revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".

Other than that I would recommend Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" and "On Authority".