Also known as Marginal Notes to the Programme of the German Worker’s Party. A work in which Marx profoundly exposed and criticized Lassalle’s opportunism and expounded the principles of scientific socialism. Written between April and early May 1875, unpublished in Marx’s lifetime. In 1891, in order to assist the Social Democratic Party of Germany to formulate a scientific programme of action, Engels, in spite of the opposition of the opportunist leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, published this work publicly in the German Party’s theoretical journal Die Neue Zeit, Vol. 1, No. 18, and wrote a preface. At the same time, Marx’s letter to Wilhelm Bracke on May 5, 1875, which was directly related to this work, was also published. The Critique of the Gotha Programme was first translated into Chinese by Xiong Deshan and was published in the Beijingmagazine Today, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Marx Special Issue) in 1922; and another translation by Li Chunfan (Ke Bonian) was published by the Shanghai Liberation Series in 1925; and another translation by He Sijing and Xu Bing was published by the Yan’an Liberation Publishing House in 1939. After the founding of New China, Renmin Publishing House also published a single edition in 1965, 1992, 1997 and 2015, respectively…
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