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How to read Karl Marx

Ernst Fischer in collaboration with Franz Marek ; translated by Anna Bostock ; with an introduction and historical notes by John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, c1996

  • : paper
  • : cloth

Other Title

Was Marx wirklich sagte

Uniform Title

Was Marx wirklich sagte

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780853459736

Description

A brief, clear, and faithful exposition of Marx's major premises, with particular attention to historical context.
Volume

: paper ISBN 9780853459743

Description

Has any major thinker been more poorly understood than Karl Marx? Over the last 150 years, his name has been invoked in connection with everything from unemployment insurance to Hollywood to guerrilla wars. Any number of international movements have claimed his teachings as their inspiration. Time after time, authorities have proclaimed the death of Marx's theories while new and old audiences continue to draw vital insight from the works of the most important philosopher and economist of the industrial era. Ernst Fischer has crafted a brief, clear, and faithful exposition of Marx's main premises, with particular emphasis on historical context. This new edition of the English translation of 'Was Marx wirklich sagte' (1968) includes new contributions by John Bellamy Foster that sharpen Fischer's focus for today's readers. Also included are a biographical chronology, extracts from major works of Marx, and "Marx's Method," a valuable essay by the political economist Paul M. Sweezy.

Table of Contents

  • The dream of the whole man
  • creative labour
  • division of labour and alienation
  • the fetish character of the commodity
  • classes and the class struggle
  • historical materialism
  • value and surplus value
  • profit and capital
  • the problem of increasing misery
  • the theory of revolution
  • dictatorship of the proletariat, socialism, communism
  • labour movement and international
  • the philosophy of practice
  • Marxism today.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA31165938
  • ISBN
    • 0853459746
    • 0853459738
  • LCCN
    95033992
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    192 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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