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Karl Marx: a Verso Reading List

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Karl Marx: a Verso Reading List

May 5th, 1818, marks the birth of Karl Marx.

From Marx's own writings to contemporary interpretations and adaptations of his ideas, this reading list offers a comprehensive exploration of the principles that have inspired generations of activists and intellectuals.

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David Harvey on Marx's Capital

No understanding of Marxist theory is complete without the work of David Harvey. 

In this video, the radical intellectual discusses becoming a Marxist, and his latest work on Marx's Grundrisse, with his Verso editor Sebastian Budgen.

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Works by Karl Marx

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Essential reading on Marx and Capitalism

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Marxism through the lens of Literature, Culture, and Philosophy

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Biography and History

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Deeper reading on Marxist Theory

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Considerations on Western Marxism

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Anti-colonial Marxism

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Marxist Economics

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  • Eleanor Marx
    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...
    Paperback
  • A World to Win

    A World to Win

    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...
    Paperback
  • Revolution
    This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of “dialectical images”: Marx’s “locomotives of history,” Alexandra Kollontai’s sexua...

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