The Essential Marx

The Essential Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2006-07-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 048645116X

Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Leon Trotsky — one of Marx's most devoted converts and a key figure in the Russian Revolution — made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words but also places them in the swirling context of the 20th century. A critical analysis of ideas that have influenced millions of lives for well over a century, this book will be an important addition to the libraries of students and instructors of economics, history, government, and Communist thought.

The Essential Marx

The Essential Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 048612231X

DIVCompact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words, it places them in the swirling context of the early 20th century. /div

Karl Marx

Karl Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1986-08-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Essential Writings of Karl Marx

Essential Writings of Karl Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781934941867

The basic texts of Marxist socialism. Preface gives an easy-to- understand introduction to Marxist philosophy. Includes the complete texts of "The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844," "The Communist Manifesto," "Wage Labor and Capital," and "Critique of the Gotha Program."

The Meaning of Karl Marx

The Meaning of Karl Marx
Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1984
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

A "close textual analysis" of the life and work of Karl Marx, emphasizing that his thought took the form of a secular religion, deeply affected by his Christian upbringing. Supports the research trend seeing a unity between the thought of the young, "humanist" Marx and the later "scientific" thinker. Marx's early essay "On the Jewish Question" is dealt with in ch. 6 (pp. 70-77). In presenting Judaism as a synonym for capitalism, Marx echoes antisemitic stereotypes, perhaps influenced by self-hatred. In the process, he reached fruitful insights about society and history.

The Theory of Need in Marx

The Theory of Need in Marx
Author: Agnes Heller
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 178663614X

The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are all in some way built upon the concept of need. From Marx's varying and passing interpretations of a theory of need, Agnes Heller unravels the main tendencies and demonstrates the importance which Marx attached to the "restructuring" of a system of needs going beyond the purely material. She also brings out those aspects, especially the idea of "radical needs" which point to revolutionary activity and to the project which Marx could only foresee but which for us today is of real urgency: the "society of associated producers". Thus Agnes Heller's study is not only the first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, but the basis for a discussion of the utmost contemporary relevance.

A World to Win

A World to Win
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 902
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1786635062

Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live once more for a new generation. Despite 200 years having passed since his birth, his burning condemnation of capitalism remains of immediate interest. Now, more than ever before, Marx's texts can be read for what they truly are. In addition to providing a living picture of Marx the man, his life, and his family and friends - as well as his lifelong collaboration with Friedrich Engels - Sweden's leading intellectual historian Sven-Eric Liedman, in this major new biography, shows what Karl Marx the thinker and researcher really wrote, demonstrating that this giant of the nineteenth century can still exert a powerful attraction for the inhabitants of the twenty-first.