Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys

Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work

Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed as "the Prophet himself" whose name and writings would "endure through the ages." He has been viewed as a philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, even a literary craftsman. But who was Marx? What informed his critiques of modern society? And how are we to understand his legacy?

In Marx and Marxism, Gregory Claeys, a leading historian of socialism, offers a wide-ranging, accessible account of Marx's ideas and their development, from the nineteenth century through the Russian Revolution to the present. After the collapse of the Soviet Union his reputation seemed utterly eclipsed, but now 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.

Gregory Claeys is a University of London Professor of Political Thought History. He is the editor of The Works of Robert Owen (1993), and his writings include Thomas Paine: Social and Political Philosophy (1989) and Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism (1989).

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ISBN 13	9781568588971
ISBN 10	1568588976
Title	Marx and Marxism
Author	Gregory Claeys
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bold Type Books
Year published	2018-04-24
Number of pages	384
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