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Karl Marx has 3027 books on Goodreads with 766855 ratings. Karl Marx’s most popular book is The Communist Manifesto.
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- Marx: A Very Short Introduction, by Peter Singer
- Why Marx Was right, by Terry Eagleton
- Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones
- Main Currents of Marxism, by Leszek Kolakowski
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
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Famed contemporary philosopher Peter Singer’s Marx: A Very Short Introductionis a fantastic place to start for anyone with a budding interest in Karl Marx or Marxism generally. Considering the sheer breadth and depth of Marx’s thinking, Singer does an admirable job in providing an illuminating overview of his life and most important ideas – includi...
In his accessible 2011 Why Marx Was Right, popular literary theorist Terry Eagleton takes common criticisms of Marxism and shows why they are often based on misconceptions of what Marxism actually is, and aims to demonstrate how Marxist critiques of capitalism are as alive and relevant today as ever before. This book thus doubles as an introductory...
If you’re seeking to dive a little deeper with your Marx scholarship, consider Gareth Stedman Jones’s Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, first published in 2016. In this philosophical biography, Stedman Jones brings to life the tumultuous times that shaped Marx as a thinker, providing a thorough, dispassionate, very well-researched analysis of his ...
If you’re looking to understand not just Marx but all the subsequent strands of Marxist thought, look no further than renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski’s epic 1976 Main Currents of Marxism, consisting of three volumes that investigate the entire history of Marx and Marxism (‘The Founders’, ‘The Golden Age’, and ‘The Breakdown’). This brilliant...
Turning from introductions to primary texts, where better to start than with the book that cemented Marx’s name into human history? Published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, Marx and Engels’ short yet forceful The Communist Manifestocloses with the following infamous lines: This powerful work distills Marx and Engels’ economic principl...
The more thorough, complex, and detailed blueprint for Marxist thinking, Das Kapitalis Marx’s 1867 magnum opus. Marx builds out a sustained critique of capitalism and private property, and asserts his vision for a system of common ownership of the means of production — a communist society built around the maxim, “from each according to his ability,...
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Books by Karl Marx. Karl Marx was a 19th-century German philosopher who had a huge impact on world history with his formulation of communism as a way of combating the horrors of the capitalism that had resulted from the Industrial Revolution.
