Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle examines the economic theories of Carl Rodbertus-Jagetzow on value, rent, wages, and crises.

Lassalle's 1863 Leipzig speech urges workers to form an independent political movement and demand universal, equal, and direct…

A documentary collection of Ferdinand Lassalle's letters to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, written between 1849 and 1862.

Lassalle's Arbeiterprogramm argues history moves toward freedom and the working class must complete the emancipation the bourgeoisie left…

Lassalle argues that the working class embodies human progress and that the State exists to serve it, not…

Lassalle's 1862 lecture argues that a constitution merely reflects the real distribution of power among social forces, not…

Lassalle's political lecture argues that a constitution expresses real social power, not legal text, and draws lessons for…

Lassalle's short polemic asks how capital should be defined and why economists' standard definitions are misleading.

[Reden] is a German-language collection of Ferdinand Lassalle's political speeches, published as the second volume in the Redner…

Lassalle argues the Prussian Crown can ally with workers against the liberal bourgeoisie.

Lassalle's 1862 lecture distinguishes the written constitution from the real constitution, the actual distribution of power among social…

Ferdinand Lassalle’s polemical work critiques Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch’s self-help doctrine and harmonist economics.

Lassalle argues that indirect taxes on everyday goods fall hardest on workers and quietly shift the state's burden…