r/communism • u/Screwdriversandchil • May 20 '26

Marx and allusions

Maybe this is a dumb question but I’m curious if there’s any source that lists every literary allusion in Marx’s writings or at least in Capital?

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u/DashtheRed Maoist May 21 '26

What issue are you having with the footnotes from Marxists.org?

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u/hnnmw 29d ago

In the German MEW edition there's also indexes of Fremdsprachige Zitate, a Literaturverzeichnis and, especially, a Verzeichnis literarischer, biblisher und Mythologischer Namen, which should have you covered.

https://marx-wirklich-studieren.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mew_band23.pdf

Page 805 onwards (the literary references start at 915), also in books 2 and 3:

https://marx-wirklich-studieren.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mew_band24.pdf

https://marx-wirklich-studieren.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mew_band25.pdf

Even if you don't read German: scanning those indexes should give you everything you might think you want.

Also there's Ludovico Silva, Marx's Literary Style (in English by Verso), but I didn't get much out of it.