Commentary

• Marx and the Marxists by Sidney Hook

  - Hook, Sidney. Marx and the Marxists: The Ambiguous Legacy. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1955.
  From the Publisher: 2011 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues which have divided Marxists from… More

• On Karl Marx by Ernst Bloch

  - Bloch, Ernst. On Karl Marx. New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.  

• An Introduction to Karl Marx

  - Elster, Jon. An Introduction to Karl Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  From the Publisher: “A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx’s social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics,… More

• “Karl Marx” by Joseph Cropsey

  - Cropsey, Joseph. “Karl Marx.” In History of Political Philosophy, 3rd ed., edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 802–822. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

• The Cambridge Companion to Marx

  - Carver, Terrell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  From the Publisher: “Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as… More

• Marx: A Very Short Introduction

  - Singer, Peter. Marx: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  From the Publisher: “In Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx’s thought, enabling us to grasp Marx’s views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human… More

• Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

  - Kolakowski, Leszek, and P. S Falla. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
  From the Publisher: “Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback volume, his definitive Main… More

• “Review of The Young Karl Marx, by David Leopold”

  - Schechter, Benli M. “Review of The Young Karl Marx, by David Leopold.” Interpretation, Vol. 37 (2009), pp. 105-114.
  Excerpt: ” Remarkably, the greatest critiques of Marxism surfaced not from among those in the right wing of the ideological spectrum, but from among those in its left wing—that is, from those even further out than today’s mainstream of Marxism. This… More

• How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

  - Hobsbawm, Eric. How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
  From the Publisher: “In the 144 years since Karl Marx’s Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism… More