_Das Kapital_ (_Capital_) is undoubtedly Marx’s best-known and most important writing. It forms, in a literal sense, the cornerstone of modern-day communism. The work is in three volumes: _Capitalist Production_ (1867), _Capitalist Circulation_ (1885), _Capitalist Production as a Whole_ (1894). The final two volumes were completed by Engels after Marx’s death. In this massive work Marx attempted, using many statistics compiled from nineteenth-century England, to prove that capitalism was doomed. To communists, _Das Kapital_ is “scientific” proof of the inevitability of communist revolution. Time after time history has proved the errors, fallacious logic, and unscientific premises of the major thoughts contained in _Das Kapital_; yet to communists the book is an infallible guide to Party thought and action. Another important work of Marx is _The Civil War in France_. This work (which actually consists of three statements drafted by Marx for the First International) was written in connection with the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government set up in Paris after the defeat of France by Prussia in 1870-71. Although lasting only a few weeks, the Commune is regarded by communists as the first working-class government in history. This “classic” sets forth Marx’s view toward the existing state apparatus of a “bourgeois” state: that is, the working class cannot confine itself merely to taking over the state machinery; but the “bourgeois” state must be utterly destroyed and replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat. _The Poverty of Philosophy_ (1847) represents one of Marx’s earliest works on economics, while _The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte_ (1852) discusses, among other things, the character of the “bourgeois” revolution. The latter work was written concerning the activities of Louis Bonaparte, President of the Second French Republic, who was later to become Emperor of France. It must be noted that Marx (and also Engels and Lenin) were acute observers of contemporary political, social, and economic affairs; and their writings abound with references to current events and personalities. Other works of Marx include: _Critique of Political Economy_ (1859), _Value, Price and Profit_ (1865), and _Critique of the Gotha Programme_ (1875). In the latter, Marx develops his idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the “withering away” of the state. Marx was a prolific letter-writer, corresponding with many revolutionaries in England and abroad. The _Selected Correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels_ (1846-1895) shows how the intimate collaboration of these two perverted minds gave birth to the communist conspiracy. FRIEDRICH ENGELS: