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Explore the comprehensive political economy digital library, primary-source collected works, rights-reviewed readers, and the working bibliography.

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Digital Library

Over 160 volumes of primary collected works (MECW 1–50, Lenin CW 1–45) and core political economy treatises in an on-site reader.

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Reading List

The complete working bibliography, now connected to twelve structured learning pathways.

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Primary Sources

Rights-reviewed foundational HTML editions in a local, traceable reader with source and license provenance.

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Digital library & primary source repository

Continental Communist hosts an open, on-site digital library of Marxist political economy, classical economic theory, and revolutionary history. Spanning the complete Marx & Engels Collected Works (50 Volumes), the complete V. I. Lenin Collected Works (45 Volumes), and over 60 core monographs and treatises, every text is available for on-site reading, search, citation, and offline study.

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Total Works & Volumes
50
MECW Volumes (1–50)
45
Lenin Collected Works
64
Treatises & Monographs

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Use real-time search, category filters, and sorting to explore primary texts, collected works, and modern treatises across value theory, crisis theory, imperialism, ecology, and social reproduction.

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In addition to the PDF library, the primary-text reader hosts verified HTML editions sourced from the Marxists Internet Archive. Every chapter includes archive provenance, edition statements, and source fingerprints.

1845 · Introductory

Theses on Feuerbach

Eleven compact theses in which Marx recasts materialism around practical, social, and transformative human activity.

1847 · Introductory

Wage Labour and Capital

A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.

1848 · Introductory

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.

1865 · Intermediate

Value, Price and Profit

Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.

1867 · Advanced

Capital, Volume I

Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.

1871 · Intermediate

The Civil War in France

Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.

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The library is closely integrated with the twelve structured learning pathways and the working bibliography. You can pair any text with lecture guides, pathway glossaries, and structured review questions.