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Title:: The Spreading Effect of Marx’s“ the Third Type of Texts”: AnExplanation for Engels’s“ Omission” of the German-French Yearbook

Abstract:: According to the adhesion between thought and reality, Marx’s texts can be divided into fourcategories, and his newspaper articles belong to the third type of texts. Compared with other texts, the thirdtype of texts has the significance in showing how his thoughts were formed and spread, and the social effectproduced in the process of text dissemination is an important indicator to determine its value. Academicsat home and abroad spoke highly of the ideological value of Marx’s articles published in Germany-FranceYearbook, but when Engels mentioned in his speech at Marx’s tomb in his later years that Marx participatedin contributing articles to and editing many newspapers and magazines, he“ omitted” the Germany-FranceYearbook. A possible explanation for this“ omission” is that when he selected the works to mention, he tookthe communication effect as an important criterion. Because its“ death in infancy” caused its social effect tobe greatly weakened, the German-French Yearbook failed to give full play to the direction of the proletarianrevolution, and thus influenced the evaluation of its value by Engels.