Marx at the Chicken Shack
What makes Marx a stranger to Marxist movements is not simply the difficulty of certain key works and passages, but a series of other obstacles.
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Marx comes painfully close to describing our current world
"It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the Communist Manifesto without recognizing the society that is ours" – Sven-Eric Liedman
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Writing Eleanor Marx
In this excerpt from her memoirs, activist and writer Yvonne Kapp reflects on the decade-long research and writing of her definitive biography of Eleanor Marx.
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200 Years After His Birth, Marx Has Never Been So Full of Life
In his bicentenary year, Marx's writings remain essential to understanding how the world moves.
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Why Marx Now?
McKenzie Wark considers the question "Why Marx now?" through a close reading of one of the Communist Manifesto's most famous lines.
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Who was Karl Marx?
Marx biographer Sven-Eric Liedman asks this very question in his new book. Here he reviews the various biographies that exist – books that in one way or another claim to deal with the complete Marx, his life and his works.
