Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length ...

In the opening lines of this book Michael Heinrich quotes from an 1868 letter in which Karl Marx mentions a publisher’s request for a biography. “Not only did I not send one”, said Marx, “I did not ...

As a child of the Cold War, I retain a reflexive disdain for Marxism, an ideology I believe negates the better angels of mankind’s nature while arming totalitarian zealots with a seductive gospel to ...

This superb, readable biography of the most controversial political and economic thinker of the last two centuries achieves what scholars have been hard-pressed to deliver in recent decades: a study ...

Greatness and Illusion by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones places Marx in his 19th century context, thus distinguishing between Marx the man and Marxism the movement. Professor Stedman Jones says: “When ...

How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, Yale University Press has published a series of short biographies of eminent Jews, from Moses to Barbra ...

A half-century has passed since the first book appeared, and in the interim we have witnessed both the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since the 1967 war (if not before), the ongoing colonization ...

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist ...

“Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Co.), by Mary Gabriel: Karl Marx, the father of international communism, was a devoted husband to his wife, ...