Featuring the most important and enduring works from Marx's enormous corpus, this thoughtful new collection spans Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. Organized both topically and in rough chronological order, the selections include writings from Marx's early more purely philosophical works, the central writings on historical materialism, excerpts from Capitaland writings of a more political nature from his later period.
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I'm taking anthropology in College, and Marx has been a big influence in the studies. One of the required textbooks was this one. It was great. It goes deep into socilogical culture analysis, communism, and religion.i would recommend this book to anyone!
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let take a walk through social revolution,
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Karl Marx is absolutely brilliant concerning his approach to peasant revolution. Such examples of his brilliance is China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Cuba. Marx understood the importance of the proletarian's existence in the social order and food chain. In these selected writings, Marx discusses the manipulation of the proletarian by the bourgeois social class, the importance of a collectivist society, the failures of capitalism, the advantages of socialism, etc... Ultimately, Marx states that, with the exception of China, capitalism will evolve into perfect communism. He also states on page 175 10 characteristic of a capitalistic society evolving into communism: 1)abolition of land property and rent, 2)a progressive income tax, 3)abolition of all inheritance, 4)confiscation of property, 5)centralization of credit into the state, 6)centralization of communication, 7)state-owned businesses, 8)equal liability to all labor, 9)abolition of difference between town and country, and 10)free education in public schools. This book is an excellent edition to any student of political philosophy.
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standard intro,
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A good introduction but the professor's introductions are sycophantic, eulogizing and unbearably pedantic. The religious insinuation of Marx with Axial wise men is voluptuous and intellectually vulgar; as one of the first anti-State economists Marx deserves better. This edition is used widely by universities, so this treatment comes to no surprise.
Other recommendations: Actually reading the volumes of Capital The Trotsky compiled reader. From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation -- David Ramsay Steele The Myth of National Defense -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe Nation, State and Economy Theory of Money and Credit --Ludwig von Mises marxists.org mises.org (avoid the viking portable Marx, get the real deals)
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