The Essential Marx

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048645116X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
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

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048612231X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
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: Essential Writings

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Essential Works of Marxism

Author: Arthur P. Mendel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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The Essential Marx

Author: Ernst Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Marx and the Earth

Author: John Bellamy Foster
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004288791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
A decade and a half ago John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett introduced a new, revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx’s thought, demonstrating that Marx’s concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. Ecological relations were shown to be central to Marx’s critique of capitalism, including his value analysis. Now in Marx and the Earth Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx. The result is a full-fledged anti-critique—pointing to the crucial roles that dialectics, open-system thermodynamics, intrinsic value, and aesthetic understandings played in the original Marxian critique, holding out the possibility of a new red-green synthesis.

Karl Marx

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Essential Writings of Karl Marx

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934941867
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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."

Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners

Author: Michael Wayne
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1934389633
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Marx’s 'Das Kapital' cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics, history, economics, philosophy and even in places, literature (yes Marx’s style is that rich and evocative). Marx’s 'Das Kapital' For Beginners is an introduction to the Marxist critique of capitalist production and its consequences for a whole range of social activities such as politics, media, education and religion. 'Das Kapital' is not a critique of a particular capitalist system in a particular country at a particular time. Rather, Marx's aim was to identify the essential features that define capitalism, in whatever country it develops and in whatever historical period. For this reason, 'Das Kapital' is necessarily a fairly general, abstract analysis. As a result, it can be fairly difficult to read and comprehend. At the same time, understanding 'Das Kapital' is crucial for mastering Marx's insights to capitalism. Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners offers an accessible path through Marx's arguments and his key questions: What is commodity? Where does wealth come from? What is value? What happens to work under capitalism? Why is crisis part of capitalism's DNA? And what happens to our consciousness, our very perceptions of reality and our ways of thinking and feeling under capitalism? Understanding and learn from Marx's work has taken on a fresh urgency as questions about the sustainability of the capitalist system in today's global economy intensify.

The Theory of Need in Marx

Author: Agnes Heller
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178663614X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
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.