Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys
An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism
Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean today?
Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. The movements associated with his name have lent hope to many victims of tyranny and aggression but have also proven disastrous in practice and resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions. If after the collapse of the Soviet Union his reputation seemed utterly eclipsed, a new generation is reading and discovering Marx in the wake of the recurrent financial crises, growing social inequality and an increasing sense of the injustice and destructiveness of capitalism. Both his critique of capitalism and his vision of the future speak across the centuries to our times, even if the questions he poses are more difficult to answer than ever.
In this wide-ranging account, Gregory Claeys, one of Britain's leading historians of socialism, considers Marx's ideas and their development through the Russian Revolution to the present, showing why Marx and Marxism still matter today.
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Economics: The User's Guide
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
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The Art of Uncertainty
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Social Class in the 21st Century
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This Is Shakespeare
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National Populism
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The Artificial Intelligence
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Think Like an Anthropologist
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The Human Planet
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Being Ecological
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Feeding Britain
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Plunder of the Commons
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A Object-Oriented Ontology
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How to See the World
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Think Again
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How Religion Evolved
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Basic Income
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Architecture
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Islam
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The Road to Conscious Machines
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A Social Mobility
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Lenin and the Russian Revolution
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The The Government of No One
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Why War?
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The Holocaust
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Human Evolution
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Can We Be Happier?
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A Hermeneutics
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A Short History of Japan
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Feminisms
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The Politics of Time
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A Political History of the World
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Who Governs Britain?
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The Power of Language
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The Domesticated Brain
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Human Capital
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Our Universe
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Greek and Roman Political Ideas
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Chinese Thought
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A What We Really Do All Day
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Utopia
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John Stuart Mill
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The Utopia Reader
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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
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A New View of Society and Other Writings
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Dystopia
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Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850 Vol 5
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Thomas Paine Collected Writings, Volume 1
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The Selected Works of Robert Owen Vol I
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The Selected Works of Robert Owen Vol IV
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The Selected Works of Robert Owen vol III
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The Politics of English Jacobinism
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Mill and Paternalism
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Thomas Paine
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Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus, Volume 2
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Imperial Sceptics
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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
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Utopias of the British Enlightenment
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French Revolution Debate in Britain
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Citizens and Saints
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
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Utopianism for a Dying Planet
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The Utopia Reader, Second Edition
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141983486 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141983485 |
| Title | Marx and Marxism |
| Author | Gregory Claeys |
| Series | Pelican Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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