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Title: The Marx-Engels Reader
by Karl Marx, New York :, Friedrich Selections. English. 1978 Engels, Robert C. Tucker
ISBN: 0-393-09040-X
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date: May, 1978
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $26.30
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Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Works Of Marxs & Engels For the Beginner!
Comment: Given the impact of Marxism on the unfolding history of the later nineteenth and twentieth century, the beginning student of the combined writings of both Marx and Engels will find this collection of the essential works of these two pioneering socialists absolutely essential reading. Its list of included works covers the waterfront of all that is required to gain a fruitful first look at the wealth of their philosophical musings, and the nature of their revolutionary canon, as well. Reading this material is essential if one is to understand the depth of Marx's understanding and the detail of his genius, however discredited he may be in current estimations. Indeed, with the rise of international corporatism is so close to his prognostications regarding the final phases of capitalism that it is hard to deny his continuing relevance.

Included here is everything from the Communist Manifesto all the way to Volume One of Das Capital. One can gain a better appreciation for his ideas regarding the way in which the antagonism between the oppressed and the oppressors provides the motive force for history, and how all history is the history of such class struggles between the owners of the means of production, on the one hand, and the workers, who have nothing to barter with but their considerable capacity to accomplish labor. If one want to gain a better appreciation for the nuances regarding how alienation is created buy the organization of work, or the origin of property, or even the ways in which all of the aspects of a particualr society's culture are manifestations of the values of the ruling class, then a careful reading of the material found here will serve you well. I highly recommend this book. Enjoy!

Rating: 5
Summary: From Human Nature to Revolution
Comment: This book is a MUST for anyone who seeks a well-rounded understanding of Marx. It is ordered in an ascending fashion, starting from his initial ideas about his absolutist materialist ideologie in his early academic years, down to the culminating work of the Communist Manifesto as an outcast revoutionary. It is structured in such an intelligent and convenient way that the reader can feel like he is holding hands with Marx and his intellectual development.

What I find most fascinating about Marx's style of writing is that while it is subtle, sophisticated, and academic his audience was geared for the masses. In other words, the writing has a strong activist tone to it. And he gets away with much of his merciless attacks and accusations against capitalism and the bourgeois since he wrote outside of the insitutional setting.

It has been a refreshing experience to read a scholar who is so daring and bold. Marx, in my eyes, completely represents intellectual freedom bounded by the human spirit alone, and not by insitutional, political, or economic structures and agendas. Marx-Engels reader provides intellectual and spiritual refreshment in every sense of the word.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best collection we have
Comment: "The Marx-Engels Reader" is the best single collection of Marx's thought. What makes it doubly important, is that it is one of the few texts which contain an index. This sounds unremarkable, but believe me, it makes the text extremely more useful. This book transcends the state of being a mere anthology, and is an indespensible reference work.

Make sure you get the second edition.

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