Karl Marx

By: Paul Thomas

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Paperback | 1 April 2012

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189 Pages

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He was relatively unknown in his lifetime, but Karl Marx's theories about society, economics, and politics changed the world, led to the Russian Revolution and the formation of the Soviet Union and the creation of the People's Republic of China, and inspired variants from Leninism and Stalinism to Trotskyism and Maoism. Marx is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age, but in recent times "Marxism" has become a vague, contestable, and uncertain term. In this concise, accessible book, Paul Thomas casts a clarifying light on Marx's life and writings, providing a cogent introduction to a contemporary audience.

Illuminating Marx's development as a critical thinker and revolutionary politician, Thomas explores how the events of Marx's life influenced his doctrines. Thomas follows Marx from his birth into a wealthy family in Prussia, to his period of study of philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin and his subsequent work as a journalist for radical newspapers in Cologne and Paris, where he began to develop the concepts that would lead to Marxism. As Marx found himself exiled to Brussels and finally to London, Thomas illustrates how he was inspired by his relationships with other socialist thinkers, particularly Friedrich Engels, and the tumultuous and fluctuating state of the governments in Europe. These experiences and their influence on Marx inspired The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, along with the many other books and pamphlets that continue to be read and discussed today. A valuable resource for anyone trying to understand the governments, wars, and movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Karl Marx is an enlightening book about this potent thinker and the world that created him.

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"Paul Thomas quotes Marx, in the years before he died, saying he was glad to be appreciated, yet 'I am not a Marxist.' Thomas helps us unravel this paradox. For most of a century, 'Karl Marx' became an advertisement for a country that would have killed him if it could have. Thomas introduces us to a 'post-Cold War' Marx, who can breathe, and we can breathe along with him. Thomas conveys Marx's immense horizon, originality, and imaginative power. Marx may be the world's first global writer, and Thomas helps us share this world with him."

--Marshall Berman, author of All That is Solid Melts into Air and Adventures in Marxism "Marhsall Berman"

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