John Raines, ed. Marx on Religion.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I

THE YOUNG MAN MARX

“Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation” (1835)

Letter to His Father: On a Turning-Point in Life (1837)

The Leading Article of No. 179 of Kölnische Zeitung (1842)

“On the Jewish Question” (1843)

PART II

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MATERIAL WORLD

“Critique of Hegel’s Dialectic and General Philosophy” (1844)

“The German Ideology—Ideology in General” (1844-46)

“The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism” (1844)

Preface: “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (1859)

PART III

BAD WORK/GOOD WORK

Preface, “Early Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” (1844)

“Estranged Labor” (1844)

“Private Property and Communism” (1844)

“Money” (1844)

The Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) (1848)

“Money and Alienated Man” (1844)

Capital, Book I (extract) (1867)

PART IV

THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION

“Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” (1844)

“Concerning Feuerbach” (1845)

“Social Principles of Christianity” (1847)

PART V

OCCASIONAL WRITINGS

Marx

“The Decay of Religious Authority” (from New York Tribune) (1854)

Excerpts from Grundrisse (1858)

Excerpts from Capital (1867)

Engels

The Peasant War in Germany (Chapter 2) (1850)

On the History of Early Christianity (1895)

Personal Letters

Letter from Jenny Marx to Johann Philipp Becker (1866)

Letter from Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels (1864)

Letter from Karl Marx to Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1881)

Study Guide for Students