Why Read Marx Today

Bibliographic Data

ID19971069
AuthorsJ Wolff (0000-0003-2608-5674, corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages144
Publication date2002-08-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhy Read Marx Today? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780192803351.001.0001
OpenAlexW1606650845
Open LibraryOL7383303M
ISBN9780192803351
LanguageEN
Citations received10

In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read

History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Communism · Communism & Socialism · karl Marx (1818-1883) · Political Ideologies · Political science · Socialism