Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271315 in Books
• Published on: 1978-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 832 pages

Synopsis
Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism.

Customer Reviews

A concise, just-about-enough single-volume collection
For a single-volume book (which, for students, is the only realistic Marx option), this Reader covers all the bases: Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Theses on Feurbach etc, and a little from the Capitals too. It could have been a little more comprehensive, but it has most of what you need and at an accessible price. Does exactly what it says on the tin, really.

a pleasure to read
This book was used in one of the classes I took as an undergraduate. It seems to be a thorough and well chosen collection of the writings of Marx and Engels, with some insightful commentary by the editor, Robert Tucker. I'm not a scholar of the work of these two men, but reading through this again I'm struck with the notion that their ideas are still very much alive and relevant today. Marx is much maligned in the United States, but in many ways he was a humanitarian who wanted to change the world into a better place. And, as he argued, capitalism (including how it is practiced today) is deeply flawed in many ways. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.