The Grundrisse
by Karl Marx
The Grundrisse is Karl Marx's unfinished 1857 to 1858 economic draft, first published in German in Moscow in 1939 and 1941. Martin Nicolaus's complete English translation was issued by Penguin, as a Pelican book with New Left Review, in 1973.
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The Grundrisse by Karl Marx was first published in 1939.
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In order, it is followed by Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, according to Wikidata.
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