Marx/Engels Collected Works

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'''''Marx/Engels Collected Works''''' (also known as '''''MECW''''') is the largest existing collection of English translations of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Its 50 volumes contain publications by Marx and Engels released during their lifetimes, many unpublished manuscripts of Marx's economic writings, and extensive personal correspondence. The ''Collected Works'', for the most part compiled by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was issued from 1975 to 2004 by Progress Publishers (1931, Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (1936, London) and International Publishers (1924, New York City).

==History and overview== Although about a third of Marx and Engels' works were originally written in English and partly published in the British or American press,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |pages=XVIII–XIX |chapter=General Introduction |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-01}}</ref> the vast majority of their literary legacy was not collected, translated (where necessary) and made available in an extensive English edition for decades after their death.

In the Soviet Union, comprehensive collections of the works of Marx and Engels were already compiled in the 1920s and 1930s (an aborted complete edition, ''MEGA1'', as well as a first Russian edition in 28 volumes, ''Sochineniya1''). But only following the publication of new editions in Russian and German in the 1950s and 1960s (''Sochineniya2'' and ''Marx-Engels-Werke'' with 39 basic volumes and a few more supplementary ones later on), an English edition begun being prepared by Soviet editors with the help of the publishing houses of the Communist Parties in Great Britain and the USA and translators from these countries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |page=XVIII |chapter=General Introduction |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-01}}</ref>

After general editing principles had been agreed upon by the representatives of all three sides (Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, Moscow, the Central Committees of the CPs in Great Britain and the US and their publishers Lawrence and Wishart, London, and International Publishers, New York) at a conference in Moscow in December 1969,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |page=XXIV |chapter=General Introduction |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-01}}</ref> the first volume of the new edition was published in 1975.

More than forty volumes were published before the fall of the USSR; the few remaining ones were completed and issued by 2004 (V. 50).

Large parts of both authors' early writings, many of their newspaper articles (e.g. from the ''Neue Rheinische Zeitung'' 1848-49) and most of their letters as well as many of Marx's economic manuscripts were published in English for the first time in the ''Collected Works''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |page=XIX |chapter=General Introduction |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-01}}</ref> In total, the 50 volumes comprise 1,968 works and other documents (of which 805 were published in English for the first time) and 3,957 letters (of which 2,283 had never been published in English before).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=50 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=2004 |page=XXVIII |chapter=Preface |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-50}}</ref>

The ''Collected Works'' consists of writings by Marx between 1835 and his death in 1883, and by Engels between 1838 and his death in 1895. Early volumes (V. 1-2) include juvenilia, such as correspondence between Marx and his father, Marx's poetry, and letters from Engels to his sister. The edition also contains several major, well-known works by Marx and Engels, such as ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'' (V. 4), ''The Communist Manifesto'' (V. 6), ''The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon'' (V. 11), and ''Anti-Dühring'' (V. 25).

The collection is divided into three parts. Volumes 1-27 collect the political, philosophical, historical and journalistic writings of the authors, in chronological order. Volumes 28-37 specifically collect Marx's writings on political economy, including a large amount of draft material and manuscripts which culminated in the three volumes of ''Capital'' (V. 35-37). Finally, volumes 38-50 collect the letters and personal correspondence of the authors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book-series/marx-engels-collected-works |title=Marx & Engels Collected Works |website=Lawrence and Wishart}}</ref>

==Contents by volume==

Although most of ''MECW's'' volumes include material written by Marx and Engels (whether separately or as co-authors), a large minority of volumes are devoted to material written by only one author. Red check marks indicate the author's presence in a volume, while black X marks indicate that the author's work is absent. Although the volumes typically contain large varieties of material, only major selected items are listed below, for illustration.

{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Volume !! Marx !! Engels !! Period !! Pub. Date !! class="unsortable"|Major Contents |- | 1 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1835–1843 | 1975 | Early writings of Marx, including doctoral dissertation ''The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |isbn=9780853152842 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-01}}</ref> |- | 2 | {{X mark}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1838–1842 | 1975 | Early writings of Engels<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=2 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |isbn=9780853152927 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-02}}</ref> |- | 3 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1843–1844 | 1975 | Early writings of both, including the ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844'', ''Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=3 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |isbn=9780853152934 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-03}}</ref> |- | 4 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1844–1845 | 1975 | ''The Holy Family'', ''The Condition of the Working Class in England''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=4 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1975 |isbn=9780853152941 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-04}}</ref> |- | 5 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1845–1847 | 1976 | ''The German Ideology'', ''Theses on Feuerbach''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=5 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1976 |isbn=9780853153115 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-05}}</ref> |- | 6 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1845–1848 | 1976 | ''The Communist Manifesto'', ''The Poverty of Philosophy'', ''Principles of Communism''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=6 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1976 |isbn=9780853153122 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-06}}</ref> |- | 7 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1848 | 1977 | rowspan=3| Articles for ''Neue Rheinische Zeitung''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=7 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1977 |isbn=9780853153528 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=8 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1977 |isbn=9780853153535 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=9 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1977 |isbn=9780853153542 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-09}}</ref> |- | 8 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1848–1849 | 1977 |- | 9 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1849 | 1977 |- | 10 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1849–1851 | 1978 |''The Class Struggles in France 1848–1850'', ''The Peasant War in Germany''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=10 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1978 |isbn=9780853153559 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-10}}</ref> |- | 11 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1851–1853 | 1979 |''The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon'', ''Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=11 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1979 |isbn=9780853153566 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-11}}</ref> |- | 12 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1853–1854 | 1979 | rowspan=8| Newspaper articles concerning global politics and other writings, including ''The Civil War in the United States''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=12 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1979 |isbn=9780853153573 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=13 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1980 |isbn=9780853153580 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=14 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1980 |isbn=9780853154358 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=15 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1986 |isbn=9780853154365 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=16 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1980 |isbn=9780853154372 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=17 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1981 |isbn=9780853154389 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=18 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1982 |isbn=9780853154396 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=19 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1984 |isbn=9780853154402 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-19}}</ref> |- | 13 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1854–1855 | 1980 |- | 14 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1855–1856 | 1980 |- | 15 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1856–1858 | 1986 |- | 16 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1858–1860 | 1980 |- | 17 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1859–1860 | 1981 |- | 18 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1857–1862 | 1982 |- | 19 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1861–1864 | 1984 |- | 20 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1864-1868 | 1985 | rowspan=4| Articles and writings concerning the First International, ''Value, Price and Profit'' (V. 20)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=20 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1985 |isbn=9780853154419 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=21 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1985 |isbn=9780853154426 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=22 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1986 |isbn=9780853154433 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=23 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1988 |isbn=9780853154440 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-23}}</ref> |- | 21 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1867– 1870 | 1985 |- | 22 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1870–1871 | 1986 |- | 23 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1871–1874 | 1988 |- | 24 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1874–1883 | 1989 |''Critique of the Gotha Program'', ''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=24 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1989 |isbn=9780853154457 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-24}}</ref> |- | 25 | {{X mark}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | — | 1987 |''Anti-Dühring'', ''Dialectics of Nature''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=25 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1987 |isbn=9780853154464 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-25}}</ref> |- | 26 | {{X mark}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1882–1889 | 1990 |''Origin of the Family'', ''Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=26 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1990 |isbn=9780853154471 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-26}}</ref> |- | 27 | {{X mark}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1890–1895 | 1990 | Late political writings of Engels<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=27 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1990 |isbn=9780853154488 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-27}}</ref> |- | 28 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1857–1861 | 1986 | rowspan=2| ''Grundrisse'', ''A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=28 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1986 |isbn=9780853154495 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=29 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1987 |isbn=9780853154501 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-29}}</ref> |- | 29 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1857– 1861 | 1987 |- | 30 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1861–1863 | 1988 | rowspan=5| ''Economic Manuscripts of 1861–1863'', which includes ''Theories of Surplus Value''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=30 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1988 |isbn=9780853154518 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=31 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1989 |isbn=9780853154525 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=32 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1989 |isbn=9780853154532 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-32}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=33 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1991 |isbn=9780853154549 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-33}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=34 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1994 |isbn=9780853154556 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-34}}</ref> |- | 31 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1861–1863 | 1989 |- | 32 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1861–1863 | 1989 |- | 33 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1861–1863 | 1991 |- | 34 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | 1861–1864 | 1994 |- | 35 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | — | 1996 | ''Capital, Volume I''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=35 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1996 |isbn=9780853158523 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-35}}</ref> |- | 36 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | — | 1997 | ''Capital, Volume II''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=36 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1997 |isbn=9780853154570 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-36}}</ref> |- | 37 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{X mark}} | — | 1998 | ''Capital, Volume III''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=37 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1998 |isbn=9780853154587 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-37}}</ref> |- | 38 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check mark|color=Red}} | 1844– 1851 | 1982 | rowspan=13| Letters<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=38 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1982 |isbn=9780853154594 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-38}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=39 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1983 |isbn=9780853154600 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-39}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=40 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1983 |isbn=9780853154617 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-40}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=41 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1985 |isbn=9780853156178 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-41}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=42 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1987 |isbn=9780853156185 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-42}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=43 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1988 |isbn=9780853156192 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-43}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=44 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1989 |isbn=9780853156208 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-44}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=45 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1991 |isbn=9780853156215 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-45}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=46 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1992 |isbn=9780853156222 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-46}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=47 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=1995 |isbn=9780853156239 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-47}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=48 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=2001 |isbn=9780853156246 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-48}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=49 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=2001 |isbn=9780853156253 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-49}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |title=Collected Works |volume=50 |location=London |publisher=Lawrence and Wishart |date=2001 |isbn=9780853156260 |url=https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/marx-engels-collected-works-vol-50}}</ref> |- | 39 | {{check mark|color=Red}} | {{check 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==Differences with other Marx/Engels collections== Although the ''Collected Works'' is the most comprehensive ''English translation'' of Marx and Engels' work, it is not their ''complete work''. An ongoing project to publish the pair's complete works in their original language (''Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe'') is expected to require 114 volumes.<ref>[https://marxforschung.de/mega%C2%B2/ marxforschung.de: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2)] {{In lang|de}}.</ref> However, as ''MEGA'' differs from ''MECW'' particularly in content in that it presents numerous excerpts and notes in its fourth section, publishes the letters to Marx and Engels from third persons, and prints various editions of the same works (e.g. ''Capital''), the overwhelming majority of the published writings, manuscripts, and letters of Marx and Engels are in any case included in ''MECW''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wendling |first=Amy E. |date=March 2005 |title=Comparing Two Editions of Marx-Engels Collected Works |journal=Socialism and Democracy |volume=19 |pages=181–189 |doi=10.1080/0885430042000338499|s2cid=144273105 }}</ref>

==See also== * ''Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe'' (''MEGA''), a project in progress to publish the complete untranslated works of Marx and Engels with extensive critical apparatus. * The Karl Marx Library, an aborted 13 volume series edited by Saul K. Padover, terminated in 1977.

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==External links== * [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/index.htm "Index to Marx/Engels Collected Works"], Marxists Internet Archive * {{cite web | url = https://libcom.org/article/marx-and-engels-collected-works | title = Marx and Engels Collected Works | website = libcom.org | date = 2015-04-07 | access-date = 2026-02-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260204162622/https://libcom.org/article/marx-and-engels-collected-works | archive-date = 2026-02-04 | url-status = live | postscript = none }}; with a short summary of the contents of the volumes, and links to complete pdf's of all volumes * {{cite web | url = https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=browse&limit=series_id:768&min=1&max=10&t=series_facet_select | title = Marx & Engels Collected Works | website = Project Muse | access-date = 2026-02-10 }}

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