The First International and After by Karl Marx

The First International and After

Political Writings Volume 3

by Karl Marx

Edited by David Fernbach

Penguin Books , 1974, ISBN 0140217789, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some rubbing, creasing, chipping, small tears and marking to covers, age toned pages, previous owners inscription whited out on front endpaper (see photographs)

“The crucial texts of Marx’s later years—notably The Civil War in France and Critique of the Gotha Programme—count among his most important work. These articles include a searching analysis of the tragic but inspiring failure of the Paris Commune, as well as essays on German unification, the Irish question, the Polish national movement and the possibility of revolution in Russia. The founding documents of the First international and polemical pieces attacking the disciples of Proudhon and Bakunin and the advocates of reformism, by contrast, reveal a tactical mastery that has influenced revolutionary movements ever since.”