Karl Marx: a Verso Reading List

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  The Story of Capital

  by David Harvey

  For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundriss...
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  The Political Writings

  by Karl Marx

  Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. For the first time ever, this book brings together all of his essential political...
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  The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

  by Kevin B. Anderson

  In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnologic...
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  Old Gods, New Enigmas

  by Mike Davis

  Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working blue collar jobs and sitting behind the wheel o...
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  Eleanor Marx

  by Yvonne Kapp

  Introduction by Sally Alexander

  Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collabor...
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  Karl Marx

  by Werner Blumenberg

  Foreword by Gareth Stedman Jones

  Translated by Douglas Scott

  This classic biography of Karl Marx, complete with Gareth Stedman Jones’ poignant introduction, is unlike any other account of its subject. Focusing as much on Marx’s private life as on his public ...
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  Karl Marx and World Literature

  by S. S. Prawer

  “Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literat...
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  Decolonial Marxism

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and o...
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  A Companion To Marx's Capital

  by David Harvey

  In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectur...
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  Mute Compulsion

  by Søren Mau

  Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchme...
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  Marx's Literary Style

  by Ludovico Silva

  In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx’s work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expressio...
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  A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

  by David Harvey

  When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Pu...
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  The Limits to Capital

  by David Harvey

  Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his cla...
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  For Marx

  by Louis Althusser

  Translated by Ben Brewster

  This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “...
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  On Karl Marx

  by Ernst Bloch

  This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "worldly philosophers" but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and...
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  Marx on Money

  by Suzanne de Brunhoff

  The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money a...
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  The Concept of Nature in Marx

  by Alfred Schmidt

  Translated by Ben Fowkes

  In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are ‘par...
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  The Theory of Need in Marx

  by Agnes Heller

  The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy – labour power, surplus value, use value – are all in some way built upon the concept of need. From Marx's varying and passing ...
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  The Philosophy of Marx

  by Étienne Balibar

  Translated by Gregory Elliott and Chris Turner

  Written by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts ...
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  The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx

  by Ernest Mandel

  In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a ser...
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  Marx for Our Times

  by Daniel Bensaïd

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history’s refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 200...
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  Marx and Human Nature

  by Norman Geras

  In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an...
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  Adventures in Marxism

  by Marshall Berman

  A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The Co...
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  Marxist Modernism

  by Gillian Rose

  Afterword by Martin Jay

  Edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott

  Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers: ...
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  Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

  by Helena Sheehan

  Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characteriz...
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  From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

  by Göran Therborn

  A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to ...
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  Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility

  by Kojin Karatani

  Introduction by Gavin Walker

  Edited by Gavin Walker

  Translated by Gavin Walker

  Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political...
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  Marxism and Philosophy

  by Karl Korsch

  Translated by Fred Halliday

  In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commit...
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  Marx's Revenge

  by Meghnad Desai

  In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism’s recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed woul...
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  The Automatic Fetish

  by Beverley Best

  The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central thr...
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  The Double Shift

  by Jason Read

  Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase...
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  Really Existing Nationalisms

  by Erica Benner

  Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much bett...
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  Representing 'Capital'

  by Fredric Jameson

  Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musica...
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  The Communist Manifesto

  by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

  Introduction by Eric Hobsbawm

  In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out ...
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  An Unfinished Revolution

  by Robin Blackburn

  Contributions by Raya Dunaevskaya, Friedrich Engels, Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx

  Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of “free labor” and the urgent ...
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  A World to Win

  by Sven-Eric Liedman

  Translated by Jeff Skinner

  Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live once more for a new generation. Despite...