Primary text:

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)

• in Karl Marx, The First International and After, ed. David Fernbach (Verso, 2010), pp. 339-359;

• in Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, translated by Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff, introduction by Peter Hudis, foreword by Peter Linebaugh (Binghamton, New York: PM Press, 2022);

• in Karl Marx, Later Political Writings, trans. Terrell Carver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 208-226;

• in The Marx-Engels Collected Works, Vol. 44 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2014);

• online at marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha

Karl Marx, “Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy” (1874)

• in Karl Marx, The First International and After, ed. David Fernbach (Verso, 2010), pp. 333-338;

• online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/04/bakunin-notes.htm.

Karl Marx, Letter to Vera Zasulich (and drafts) (1881)

• Karl Marx, “Réponse de Marx à Vera Zassoulitch,” 8 mars 1881, in Michael Löwy, Pier Paolo Poggio, and Maximilien Rubel, Le dernier Marx, communisme en devenir (Etérotopia, 2018), at 59-60;

• available online in French at https://www.marxists.org/francais/marx/works/1881/03/km18810308.htm

• online in English at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/

Additional Resources:

Kevin B. Anderson, “Lessons from Marx’s Classic Work, Critique of the Gotha Program, as Seen in Our New Translation — and in Light of What Faces Us Today,” IMHO Journal, September 2, 2022, available online at https://kevin-anderson.com/article/lessons-from-marxs-classic-work-critique-of-the-gotha-program-as-seen-in-our-new-translation-and-in-light-of-what-faces-us-today/

Étienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx. New and Updated Edition, trans. Chris Turner and Gregory Elliott (London: Verso, 2017)

Étienne Balibar, Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx (Routledge, 1994), Chapter 5 “In Search of the Proletariat: The Notion of Class Politics in Marx“

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, trans. Patrick Camiller (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)