Critique of the Gotha Programme

Marxs Critique of the Gotha Programme deals with fundamentals questions of the theory and programme of the working class party. It consists of a series of comments on points contained in the draft programme prepared for a unity conference of the German working class movement held at Gotha in 1875. ...Mard did not set down a systematic account of how a socialist economy would function. But in this brief work written towards the end of his life he does offer more extensive comments on the conditions of emergence and the economic and social organisation of socialist and communist society.