Marx on Economics

'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 241

==Blurb==
It is all too easy to agree or disagree with the theories of Karl Marx without having read them. It is not so easy to read them. His great work, ''Capital'', and his other writings (which include the famous ''Communist Manifesto'', published in 1848) are - to quote Professor Freedman's preface - 'forbidding in volume and turgid in prose'.

This condensed version enables the ordinary reader, for the first time, to make an impartial and intelligent study of Marx's economic theories and his critique of capitalism. It is a systematic compilation of extracts which are drawn from all his publications and presented in a logical order with brief summaries of the argument.

These extracts throw into sharp relief those economic truths with which Marx and Engels showed a pioneering insight: and they also reveal the major shortcomings of Marxian doctrine - in particular its failure to foresee the extent to which capitalism was capable of reform and also its vague Utopianism when viewed as a political programme.


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