I remember reading about a particular work of Karl Marx, a work written in English vernacular for an English working class readership while he was living in England. I haven’t been able to locate it online or elsewhere. I hope someone can help me identify it. I look forward to your feedback.
You may be thinking of Value, Price, and Profit, originally delivered as a speech in, I think, 1865. It wasn’t published in his lifetime, but is sometimes suggested as a good introduction to his work.
I’m not sure. Was Value, Price, and Profit the only work he wrote in colloquial English?
There is Engel’s The Condition of the Working Class in England which was later translated into English but was never very influential there except among historians.
I distinctly remember the author stating that the work was written in English for the English and pointing out colloquial words. But it was not a translation.
I’m not a Marxologist (I don’t even own a corduroy suit) and the English edition of Marx and Engels collected works runs to 50 volumes; the ongoing German complete works will run to over 100 volumes. So I can’t say for certain that Value, Price, and Profit is the only piece he wrote in colloquial English. But it was presented in English and is regarded as a popularized introduction to the ideas he puts forward in Capital. The first part of it is a rather tendentious and cranky critique of the notion that a rise in wages doesn’t improve thing for workers, and the second part is the more interesting elaboration of Marx’s ideas. You can google the article and find it, along with explanatory notes, at the Marxist Internet Archive.