George Lichtheim - Marxism (RLE Marxism): An Historical and Critical Study

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NO FORMAL BIBLIOGRAPHY is appended to this work. To have done so would have meant stretching to intolerable length the list of works either referred to in the text or taken for granted in the presentation of the argument. What a really comprehensive survey would entail may be gathered from the fact that M. Maximilien Rubels invaluable Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Karl Marx (Paris, 1956) runs to 258 pages and lists 885 titles for Marx alone, not counting a mere selection of 151 for Engels. A full-scale bibliography of Marxist literaturenot to mention socialism in generalwould certainly exceed the dimensions of the present work. For the socialist movement as a whole, the fullest select bibliography known to the author is that appended to the five volumes of Professor G. D. H. Coles History of Socialist Thought (London, 195560). Though selective, it includes nearly all the general studies dealing with the subject, at any rate in English and French, less so in German. In the latter language, one of the best select reading lists is that contained in the notes to the two-volume biography of Engels by Gustav Mayer (The Hague, 1934); it is, however, inevitably centred on the history of German socialism. As regards the Russian Revolution and the history of Russian Marxism, the reader must be referred to the bibliographies given by the authors cited in the course of this study. Listing these and other sources here would entail an altogether useless duplication. On the other hand, no good purpose would be served by compiling a list based solely on works cited in the text. A selection of this kind would in fact be seriously misleading, in that it would leave out of account a number of general and specialised studies not specifically mentioned in the text, but which form the indispensable background of any serious work on the subject.