May 5th is Marx's birthday

Book strip #1

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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 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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  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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  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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  The Revolutions of 1848

  by Karl Marx

  Foreword by Tariq Ali

  Edited by David Fernbach

  Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would gui...
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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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  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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  Surveys from Exile

  by Karl Marx

  Foreword by Tariq Ali

  Introduction by David Fernbach

  Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of Marx’s Political Writings we are able to see the d...
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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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  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 First International and After

  by Karl Marx

  Preface by David Harvey

  Foreword by Tariq Ali

  Edited by David Fernbach

  Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of Marx’s Political Writings we are able to see the d...
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  Value

  Edited by Diane Elson

  This influential collection of essays focuses on the elusive concept of “value,” and aims to answer the question “Why is Marx’s theory of value so important?” Aboo Aumeeruddy and Ramon Tortajada ...
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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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  The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses

  by Friedrich Engels, V. I. Lenin and Karl Marx

  Introduction by Tariq Ali

  It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of the Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval, this volume pairs Marx...
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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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  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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  The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

  by Friedrich Engels

  Foreword by Jennifer Doyle

  Introduction by Eleanor Burke Leacock

  In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropologica...
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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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  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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  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 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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  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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  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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  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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  Reading Capital

  by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière

  Translated by Ben Brewster and David Fernbach

  Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosophe...
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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...