Wage Labour and Capital & Wages, Price and Profit – Karl Marx

“The following work appeared as a series of leading articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung from April 4, 1849 onward. It is based on the lectures delivered by Marx in 1847 at the German Workers’ Society in Brussels. The work as printed remained a fragment; the words at the end of No. 269: ‘To be continued,’ remained unfulfilled in consequence of the events which just then came crowding one after another: the invasion of Hungary by the Russians, the insurrections in Dresden, Iserlohn, Elberfeld, the Palatinate and Baden, which led to the suppression of the newspaper itself (May 19, 1849). The manuscript of the continuation was not found among Marx’s papers after his death. Wage Labour and Capital has appeared in a number of editions as a separate publication in pamphlet form, the last being in 1884, by the Swiss Co-operative Press, Hottingen-Zurich.”

Friedrich Engels