Karl Marx (1818–1883) was the founding leader, along with Frederick Engels, of the modern revolutionary workers movement. Together with Engels he drafted the Communist Manifesto, the program of that movement. A founder of the Communist League (1848–52), Marx played a prominent role in the 1848–49 revolution in Germany. He was the founding leader of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (1864–76), often called the First International. The writings of Marx and Engels have provided the political foundation for the actions of proletarian revolutionists worldwide for more than a century and a half.
Pathfinder Press publishes
The Communist Manifesto (1970) and distributes the
Collected Works of Marx and Engels (1975–2004).
Frederick Engles (1820–1895) was the founding leader, along with Karl Marx, of the modern revolutionary workers movement. Together with Marx he drafted the Communist Manifesto, the program of that movement. A founder of the Communist League (1848–52), Engels played a prominent role in the 1848–49 revolution in Germany. He was, with Marx, a founding leader of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (1864–76), often called the First International. After the death of Marx in 1883, Engels led the revolutionary wing of the Second International, founded in 1880, until his own death in 1895.
Writings by Engels published and distributed by Pathfinder include:
Labor, Nature, and the Dawn of History (coauthor, 2021)
Communist Manifesto (coauthor, 2008)
Collected Works of Marx and Engels (1975–2004)
"The Peasant Question in France and Germany" in
Marxism and the Working Farmer (1979)
Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1972)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1972)
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was part of the central leadership forged by Bolshevik party leader V.I. Lenin that organized the revolutionary conquest of power by workers and peasants in Russia in October 1917. Trotsky commanded the Red Army, was a founding leader of the Communist International, and of communists in the Soviet Union and worldwide who fought to continue Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course. He continued that struggle from exile after being deported in 1929. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalin’s secret police.
Since the early 1930s Pathfinder and its predecessors have translated, published, and kept in print Trotsky's principal works. These include:
The Third International after Lenin (1996)
In Defense of Marxism (1995)
History of the Russian Revolution (1980)
The Revolution Betrayed (1972)
The First Five Years of the Communist International (two volumes, 1972)
Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929–40 (14 volumes, 1972–79)
