Notes
1. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975–2004); hereafter CW; Karl Marx, “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law: Introduction”, CW 3, p. 182.
2. Such as Robert Tucker's much reprinted and revised The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978).
3. Such as Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx: State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994).
4. See Francis Wheen's “humanizing” biography Karl Marx (London: Fourth Estate, 1999, new ed. 2010).
5. See Marx's Afterword to the second German edition of Capital, vol. 1; CW 35, p. 13.
6. See CW 1, pp. 132–81, 224–63.
7. For a radical revisioning of these manuscripts and their historical context, see Terrell Carver, “The German Ideology Never Took Place,” History of Political Thought, vol. 31, no. 1 (2010), pp. 107–27.
8. And its precursor, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859); CW 29, pp. 257–417.
9. For further reading on this general approach, see Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, vol. 1: Regarding Method (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Alan Finlayson, “From Beliefs to Arguments: Interpretive Methodology and Rhetorical Political Analysis,” British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 9, no. 4 (2007), pp. 545–63.
10. Rare amongst Marx's works of any length, Herr Vogt was never re-published in a separate edition, appearing in a complete English translation only in 1981; CW 17, p. 535 n. 12.
11. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett, student ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
12. See the discussion on this point in Michael J. Shapiro, “Metaphor in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences,” Culture and Critique, vol. 2 (1985–86), pp. 192–3.
13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm (accessed May 11, 2010).
14. Locke, Two Treatises, II.§§131, 226.
15. Marx also charged Christianity (in Capital, vol. 1) with being particularly suited to both liberalism and capitalism, but I shall leave that particular issue aside here; CW 35, p. 90
16. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, CW 6, p. 486.
17. Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question, CW 3, pp. 146–74.
18. See the controversies since 2007 surrounding the payments of management bonuses and shareholder dividends post-“credit crunch.”
19. David McLellan, Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (London: Macmillan, 1973), p. 315; cf. Franz Mehring, Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918), www.marxists.org/archive/mehring/1918/marx/ch10b.htm, ch. 10, sec. 5.
20. See my discussion of the way that an early draft of the outlook summarized in Marx's (now) famous Preface (1859) to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy emerges from, and gives way to, the supposedly “historical” (rather than “theoretical”) discussion in The Eighteenth Brumaire without any change of gear; Terrell Carver, “Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: Democracy, Dictatorship and the Politics of Class Struggle,” in Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter (eds), Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism (Cambridge: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 113–15.
21. McLellan, Karl Marx, p. 311.
22. Mehring, Karl Marx, ch. 10, sec. 5.
23. Ibid.
24. CW 17, pp. 21–329.
25. CW 17, p. 26.
26. CW 11, pp. 395–457.
27. CW 17, pp. 64–5.
29. CW 17, pp. 68–9; emphasis in original.
28. Vogt was in fact a professor of zoology, first at the University of Giessen, and then after his necessary emigration post-‘48, at the University of Geneva.
30. CW 17, p. 167; emphasis in Marx's original text.
31. CW 17, pp. 212–13.
32. CW 17, p. 238–9.
33. CW 17, p. 243; McLellan, Karl Marx, p. 315.
34. CW 17, pp. 33–4.
35. CW 6, p. 485.
36. Marx, “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law: Introduction,” CW 3, p. 186–7.
37. CW 17, p. 90; emphasis in original.