Bodin, Jean (1529-1596)

Six Bookes of a Common-weale (1577)

Jean Bodin, The Six Bookes of a Common-weale. VVritten by I. Bodin a famous Lawyer, and a man of great Experience in matters of State. Out of the French and Latine copies, done into English, by Richard Knolles (London: G. Bishop, 1606).

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1577

Stuart, Charles (King Charles I) (1600-1649)

Eikon Basilike (1649)

Charles Stuart (King Charles I), Eikon Basilike, or the King’s Book. (1649).

Charles Stuart (King Charles I), Eikon Basilike, or the King’s Book. Edited by Edward Almack F.S.A. (Alexander Moring Limited. The De La More Press, London, 1904).

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1649

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

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Leviathan (1651)

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill (1651).

Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes’s Leviathan reprinted from the edition of 1651 with an Essay by the Late W.G. Pogson Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909).

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1651

Filmer, Robert (1588–1653)

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Patriarcha (1580)

Robert Filmer, Patriarcha; of the Natural Power of Kings. By the Learned Sir Robert Filmer Baronet (London: Richard Chiswell, 1680).

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1580

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778)

Social Contract (1762)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated with an Introduction by G.D. H. Cole (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1923).

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1762

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814)

geschlossene Handelsstaat (1800)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Der geschlossene Handelsstaat (1800) in Johann Gottlieb Fichtes sämmtliche Werke. Band 3, (Berlin 1845/1846), S. 388-514.

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1800

Maistre, Joseph Marie de (1753-1821)

Principe générateur des constitutions politiques (1814)

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre, Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines. (St. Pétersbourg [Russie], Impr. de Pluchart, 1814)

English trans.: Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little and Brown, 1847). Anonymous translator.

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1814

Hegel, G. W. F (1770-1831)

Philosophy of Right (1820)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1821).

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. Mit den von (Eduard) Gans redigierten Zusätzen aus Hegels Vorlesungen neu herausgegeben von Georg Lasson (Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1911).

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Translated by S.W. Dyde (London, G. Bell and Sons, 1896).

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1820

Blanc, Louis (1811-1882)

Organisation du travail (1840)

Louis Blanc, "Organisation du travail," Revue du Progrès, Tome deuxième, 2e série,  1840 , p p. 1-30.

English trans.: Organization of Work by Louis Blanc. Translated from the First Edition by Marie Paula Dickoré. University of Cincinnati Studies, Series II January-February, 1911, Vol. VII, No. 1. (Published by The University Of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1911).

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1840

List, Friedrich (1789-1846)

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nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie (1841)

Friedrich List, Das nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie (1841). The 1st edition appeared in 1841. [facs. PDF]

We have online the 2nd ed of 1910: Friedrich List, Das nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie von Friedrich. Neudruck nach dem Ausgabe letzter Hand, eingerichtet von Professor Dr. Heinrich Waentig. Zweite Auflage. Zweite Auflage (Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1910). In Sammlung sozialwissenschaftler Meister III. Herausgegeben von H. Waentig. [facs. PDF and basic HTML]

There is also an English trans.: Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy. Translated By Sampson S. Lloyd. With An Introduction By J. Shield Nicholson, D.Sc. Professor Of Political Economy, University of Edinburgh. New Impression (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909). [facs. PDF and basic HTML]

1841

Considerant, Victor (1808-1893)

Principes du Socialisme (1847)

Victor Considerant, Principes du Socialisme. Manifeste de la Démocratie au XIXe siècle. Suivi du Procès de la Démocratie Pacifique (Paris: Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1847).

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1847

Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848)

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Veröffentlicht im Februar 1848. (London: Gedruckt in der Office der "Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter" von I. E. Burghard. 1848).

Manifesto of the Communist Party. By Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Authorized English translation: Edited and Annotated by Frederick Engels (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1888, 1910).

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1848

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)

Qu’est-ce que la propriété (1840, 1849)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement. Premier mémoire. (Paris: Garnier frères, 1849).

An English trans.: Pierre Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? First Memoir. An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. Translated from the French by Benj. R. Tucker (Princeton, Mass.: Benjamin R. Tucker, 1876). This edition also contains the "Second Memoir: A Letter to M. Blancqui on Property".

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1849

Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

Kapital (1867)

Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867-1896) 3 vols.

German:

• Das Kapital. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg, 1867. [facs. PDF and basic HTML]
• Das Kapital. Bd. 2. Buch II: Der Cirkulationsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg, 1885. [facs. PDF and basic HTML]
• Das Kapital. Buch III: Der Gesammtprocess der kapitalistischen Produktion. Kapitel I bis XXVIII. Hamburg, 1894. [facs. PDF and basic HTML]
• Das Kapital. Buch III: Der Gesammtprocess d. Kapitalist. Produktion. Kapitel XXIX-LII. Hamburg, 1894. [facs. PDF and basic HTML]

English trans: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. 3 Volumes. Trans. by Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, and Ernest Untermann (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co. Cooperative, 1909-10).

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1867

Green, Thomas Hill (1836-1882)

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Lectures On The Principles Of Political Obligation (1879)

Thomas Hill Green, Lectures On The Principles Of Political Obligation. Reprinted From Green's Philosophical Works, Vol Ii. With Preface By Bernard Bosanquet. New Impression (London: Longmans, Green And Co., 1911).

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1879

Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898)

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Looking Backward (1888)

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward. 2000-1887 (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888).

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1888

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)

Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889)

George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Essays in Socialism, ed. G. Bernard Shaw, American Edition Ed. by H.G. Wilshire (1889).

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1889

Hobhouse, Leonard T. (1864-1929)

Liberalism (1911)

L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1911).

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1911

Lenin, Vladimir (1870-1924)

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State and Revolution (1917)

Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 25, p. 381-492 (Progress Publishers, Moscow).

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1917