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The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program, with an introduction analyzing its significance to the realities of today and to Marx's own times.

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful...

"In this combative and controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical deterinism, and so on--he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken...

The unknown Karl Marx, by R. Payne.--Three essays.--Oulanem, a tragedy.--A letter from Heinrich Heine.--A report sent to Lord Palmerston.--A short sketch of an eventful life, by J. Marx.--The story of the life of Lord Palmerston.--Secret diplomatic history of the eighteenth century.--The letters of Eleanor Marx to Frederick Demuth.--Bibliography (p. 339).