Includes the editor's translations of Lenin's article (originally published in a Russian magazine called Education), Marx's Address to the Communist League, and quotations from Marx's Critique of political economy and The German ideology. "The other quotations are from standard translations ... except for the abridgement of Capital, which is Steven L. Trask's translation of Julian Borchardt's book The people's Marx"--P. xix.

Introduction /by Max Eastman -- The three sources and three constituent parts of Marxism / By V.I. Lenin (1913) -- Outlines of a future society -- From "The German ideology" (1845-6) -- From "the poverty of philosophy" (1847) -- From "The criticism of the Gotha Program" (1875) -- Analysis of the materials -- The theory of history -- From the introduction to "Critique of political economy (1859) -- The existing society -- Capital : an analysis of capitalist production (1867-1883) -- The theory of crises -- The method and the call to action -- The Communist manifesto (1848) -- From the "Criticism of the Gotha Program" (1875) -- Address of the Central Authority to the Communist League, April (1850) -- The civil war in France (1871)