Marx, K: Marx on Suicide

In 1846, two years before the publication of "The Communist Manifesto "and twenty-one years before the publication of "Das Kapital, "Karl Marx published an essay titled "Peuchet on Suicide." Based on the writings of Jacques Peuchet, a leading French police administrator, economist, and statistician whose memoirs included discussions of suicides in Paris, Marx's essay is not a straightforward translation of Peuchet but instead an essay reflecting his own strong positions on the subjects addressed in Peuchet's work.