| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| I | The Early Writings 1837-1844 | 3 |
| 1 | Letter to his Father | 9 |
| 2 | Doctoral Thesis | 15 |
| 3 | Articles for the Rheinische Zeitung | 22 |
| 4 | Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' | 32 |
| 5 | A Correspondence of 1843 | 43 |
| 6 | On the Jewish Question | 46 |
| 7 | Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction | 71 |
| 8 | Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts | 83 |
| 9 | Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach | 122 |
| 10 | On James Mill | 124 |
| 11 | Critical Remarks on the Article: 'The King of Prussia and Social Reform' | 134 |
| II | The materialist conception of history 1844-1847 | 139 |
| 12 | The Holy Family | 145 |
| 13 | Theses on Feuerbach | 171 |
| 14 | The German Ideology | 175 |
| 15 | Letter to Annenkov | 209 |
| 16 | The Poverty of Philosophy | 212 |
| 17 | Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality | 234 |
| III | 1848 and after | 237 |
| 18 | The Communist Manifesto | 245 |
| 19 | Wage-Labour and Capital | 273 |
| 20 | Speech on Free Trade | 295 |
| 21 | Articles for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung | 297 |
| 22 | Address to the Communist League | 303 |
| 23 | The Class Struggles in France | 313 |
| 24 | Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League | 326 |
| 25 | The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | 329 |
| 26 | Journalism of the 1850s | 356 |
| 27 | Speech on the Anniversary of the People's Paper | 368 |
| 28 | Letters 1848-1857 | 370 |
| IV | The 'economics' 1857-1867 | 373 |
| 29 | Grundrisse | 379 |
| 30 | Preface to A Critique of Political Economy | 424 |
| 31 | Theories of Surplus Value | 429 |
| 32 | Capital | 452 |
| 33 | Results of the Immediate Process of Production | 547 |
| 34 | Letters 1858-1868 | 562 |
| V | Later political writings 1864-1882 | 569 |
| 35 | Inaugural Address to the First Internatioal | 575 |
| 36 | On Trade Unions | 583 |
| 37 | The Civil War in France | 596 |
| 38 | Preface to the Second German Edition of the Communist Manifesto | 604 |
| 39 | On Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy | 606 |
| 40 | Critique of the Gotha Programme | 610 |
| 41 | Letter to Mikhailovsky | 617 |
| 42 | Circular Letter | 620 |
| 43 | Letter to Vera Sassoulitch | 623 |
| 44 | Comments on Adolph Wagner | 629 |
| 45 | Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto | 631 |
| 46 | Letters 1863-1881 | 633 |
| Chronological Table | 645 |
| Bibliography | 647 |
| Index of Names | 665 |
| Index of Subjects | 673 |