Critique of the Gotha Programme (Annotated) - Enriched Edition A Political Economy Essay on Labour the State and the Transition from Capitalism to Communism

Karl Marx

Summary

Written in 1875 as a penetrating commentary on the draft programme of the united German workers' party, Critique of the Gotha Programme is one of Marx's most compressed yet consequential political texts. Its style is polemical, aphoristic, and rigorously analytical, exposing imprecisions in socialist rhetoric and rejecting compromises with Lassallean doctrines. Within the literature of nineteenth-century socialism, it stands as a crucial clarification of Marx's views on labour, distribution, the state, and the transition from capitalism to communism. Karl Marx, already the author of Capital and a central theorist of international socialism, wrote this critique from the vantage point of long engagement with political economy, revolutionary movements, and party organization. His suspicion of vague formulas and opportunistic alliances reflects decades of struggle against both liberal reformism and utopian socialism. The text's famous distinction between the lower and higher phases of communist society emerges from Marx's mature effort to connect historical materialism with practical political strategy. This book is indispensable for readers seeking to understand Marx beyond slogans. Brief but demanding, it rewards careful attention and is especially recommended to students of political theory, socialism, labour history, and anyone interested in the tensions between revolutionary principle and party politics.

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Available since: 12/08/2023.

Print length: 23 pages.

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