Studies of the Freemasons, even though rare and scattered, have been carried out by Chinese scholars for a long time, but they have never become the focus of academic debates until recent years. There are dozens of discussions concerning the Freemasons in The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, a legacy too precious to be overlooked. This article tries to summarize and analyze the significance of the Freemasons in the context of Marx and Engels through a careful textual study using the Complete Works. Finally, some conclusions and heuristics regarding a Marxist understanding of the Freemasons are presented.
V. I. Lenin, The Complete Works of Lenin: Volume 17 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1959), p. 59.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 1 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1956), p. 307.
Ibid., pp. 307-308.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 4 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1958), p. 246.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 7 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1959), p. 307.
Ibid.
Ibid.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 28 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1973), p. 57.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 191.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 18 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1964), p. 389.
Ibid., p. 405.
Ibid., p. 158.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 20 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1971), pp. 349-350.
V. I. Lenin, The Complete Works of Lenin: Volume 21 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1990), p. 91.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 17 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1963), pp. 567.
Ibid., p. 653.
Ibid., p. 567.
Ibid., p. 682.
Ibid.
Ibid.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 32 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1974), pp. 473.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 6 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1961), p. 85.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 12 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1962), p. 692.
Marx and Engels, Complete Works: Volume 6, p. 278.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 10 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1962), p. 670.
Ibid., p. 401.
Ibid., p. 462.
Ibid., p. 672.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 9 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1961), p. 222.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Marx and Engels, Complete Works: Volume 6, p. 174.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 5 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1958), p. 154.
F. Merlin, The Biography of Marx (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1972), p. 492.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 25 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 2004), p. 220.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 2 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1957), pp. 103.
Marx and Engels, Complete Works: Volume 25, p. 220.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The Complete Works of Marx and Engels: Volume 22 (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 1965), pp. 225.
Ibid.