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Series: How to Read
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 17, 2006)
I thought this series was meant to make the authors understandable to the average intelligent person, i.e., cut through the jargon. There's still too much of it in this volume. Otherwise, after struggling through the jargon, I found the book to be wise and insightful.
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I am a reasonably intelligent individual, but I found this work to be difficult and ponderous. I read and reread the chapter on commodity fetishism, and still don't know what it is. I would recommend an intro university course in Philosophy, or at least a decent knowledge of philosophy, particularly German idealism, to get the most from this work. The subject matter is inherently difficult, and that was the problem. I was looking for a general, simple introduction to Marx, and particularly Das Kapital, and I have yet to find one.
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There are myriad little introductions to Marx on the market: as the above reviewer noted, the Peter Singer "very short introduction," but also writings on his individual works, illustrated introductions, guides for the perplexed, Marx for Dummies, the Complete Idiot's Guide To..., etc.
For my money, the best introduction to Marx will always be the Communist Manifesto, but looking at my own notes from high school, it is clear that, unless you are willing to read hundreds of pages of Marx thereafter, and return repeatedly TO the Manifesto, there probably should be an "introduction to the introduction."
The difficulties in reading Marx on on several levels: 1) those adopted from the Hegelian line of German Idealism, 2) extremely complicated and foreign-seeming economic analysis, and 3) the integration of these within a PRAXIS and also an -ism, a tradition which would be variously elaborated by later "Marxists."
Now, after the Communist Manifesto, the best place to see this at work is in Engels' "Socialism Utopian and Scientific" and Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution." What is important in all these works is their COMMUNIST orientation--they are not merely "theoretical" introductions.
So, those recommendations aside, this introduction is superior to many on the market because of its close analysis of the Marxist TEXT. There are ten close-readings of passages from Marx's career, which solves many of the problems for the reader approaching Marx: preconceptions and the inherent difficulties of the work. Preconceptions are rendered false problems by diving straight into questions that have NO relation to bogus bourgeois ideas of, say, the Soviet Union's collapse. And the difficult passages and concepts are excellently illuminated by Peter Osborne.Read more ›
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This is a good book if you are looking for a more challenging introduction to Marx than, say, Singer's Marx: A Very Short Introduction. As advertised, this is a book about Marx from a philosophical perspective, but that should not scare anyone because Osborne does a nice job introducing terms from Kant and Hegel and helping the reader through the vocabulary.
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This book was excellent for getting across some of Marx's tougher points! It's medium sized, and an easy read for those in classes (or for fun) trying to shift their way through Marx's sometimes wordy articles and writings. I found it immensely helpful for the Communist Manifesto, On Freurbach, Capital, and even more of Marx writings!
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