The Principles of Communism

Front cover of Principles of Communism.

The Principles of Communism (German: Grundsätze des Kommunismus) is a brief 1847 work written by Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of Marxism. It is structured as a catechism, containing 25 questions about communism for which answers are provided. In the text, Engels presents core ideas of Marxism such as historical materialism, class struggle, and proletarian revolution. The Principles of Communism served as the draft version for the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Texts by Marx and Engels

v t e Texts by Karl Marx
1840s	Doctoral Thesis ('41), On Freedom of the Press ('42), Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ('43), Comments on James Mill, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts, On the Jewish Question ('44), Theses on Feuerbach ('45), Saint Max ('46), The Poverty of Philosophy, Wage Labour & Capital, Wages ('47), The June Revolution in Paris ('48)
1850s	The Class Struggles in France ('50), 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte ('52), The Communist Trial in Cologne, The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery ('53), Revolutionary Spain ('54), Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, The Grundrisse ('57), A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ('59)
1860s	Theories of Surplus Value, Economic Manuscripts ('61), Inaugural Address of the IWMA, Direct Production Process ('64), On Proudhon, Confession, Value, Price and Profit ('65), CAPITAL VOLUME I ('67), 4th Annual Report ('68), The Right of Inheritance ('69)
1870s	The Civil War in France ('71), Nationalisation of the Land, La Liberté Speech ('72), Political Indifferentism ('73), Conspectus of Statism and Anarchy ('74), Critique of the Gotha Programme ('75)
1880s	A Workers' Inquiry, Introduction to Programme of French Workers' Party ('80), Mathematical Manuscripts, Letter to Vera Zasulich, Notes on Adolph Wagner ('81)

v t e Texts coauthored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1840s	Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher ('44), The Holy Family, The German Ideology ('45), On Free Trade, On Poland, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, Demands of Communist Party ('48)
1850s	Address to the Communist League, England's 17th c. Revolution ('50), The Heroes of the Exile ('52)
1860s-90s	U.S. Civil War ('61), Marx-Bakunin Conflict ('68), For Poland ('75), Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle ('79), CAPITAL VOLUME II ('85), CAPITAL VOLUME III ('94)

v t e Texts by Friedrich Engels
1840s	Anti-Schelling ('41), Condition of England ('44), Condition of Working Class In England ('45), Draft of a Confession of Faith, Principles of Communism, True Socialism, The True Socialists ('47)
1850s	The Peasant War in Germany ('50), Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Germany ('52), On Afghanistan ('57), Mountain Warfare ('57), Po and Rhine ('59)
1860s	The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party ('65), What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland? ('66), Synopsis of Marx's Capital ('68)
1870s	Notes on the War ('70), On the Political Action of the Working Class ('71), The Housing Question ('72), The Bakuninists at Work ('73), On Social Relations in Russia ('74), Wilhelm Wolff biography, Labour in Transition From Ape to Man ('76), Karl Marx, Anti-Dühring ('77), On Dialectics ('78)
1880s	Socialism: Utopian and Scientific ('80), The Labour Standard ('81), Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity ('82), Dialectics of Nature ('83), Origin of the Family ('84), History of the Communist League ('85), Ludwig Feuerbach ('86)
1890s	Critique of the Erfurt Program, 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune, Brentano vs. Marx ('91), The Mark ('92), The Peasant Question in France and Germany, On The History of Early Christianity ('94), Introduction to Class Struggles in France ('95)