Commentary

• “Marx on Aristotle: Freedom, Money, and Politics” by Harvey Mansfield

  - Mansfield, Harvey C. “Marx on Aristotle: Freedom, Money, and Politics.” The Review of Metaphysics 34, no. 2 (1980): 351–367.
  Excerpt: Marx’s debt to Aristotle is acknowledged in part 1 of Capital, admittedly the most difficult and, as will be argued, the most fundamental part of his principal work. His principal work is the one which establishes that the labor theory of value… More

• Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx

  - Lobkowicz, Nikolaus. Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.

• Marx and the Ancients : Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-century Political Economy

  - McCarthy, George E. Marx and the Ancients : Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-century Political Economy. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
  From the Publisher: “Marx and the Ancients is the first book-length treatment to detail the relationship between classical Greek philosophy and Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. From his dissertation on the physics and astronomy of… More

• Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity

  - McCarthy, George E. Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992.
  From the Publisher: “As the Iron Curtain was shattered recently in Eastern Europe, revealing a diversity of cultural traditions lost during the recent past, so too the curtain which has hidden Karl Marx’s writings for many years seems to be… More