Read Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

Andy Merrifield

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Description:A contemporary interrogation of Marx's masterworkKarl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it hassummoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump andBoris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, withcollusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand.And yet, contends Andy Merrifield, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped, theworks of Marx can help us penetrate the fog.In Marx, Dead and Alive - a book that begins and ends beside Marx's recently violated Londongraveside - Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people aroute toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinatingexamples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the BlackPanthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within acollective perspective - and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who weonce were - and who we might become. This, at a time when our value-system is undergoingcore "post-truth" meltdown.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times. To get started finding Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A contemporary interrogation of Marx's masterworkKarl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it hassummoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump andBoris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, withcollusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand.And yet, contends Andy Merrifield, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped, theworks of Marx can help us penetrate the fog.In Marx, Dead and Alive - a book that begins and ends beside Marx's recently violated Londongraveside - Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people aroute toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinatingexamples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the BlackPanthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within acollective perspective - and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who weonce were - and who we might become. This, at a time when our value-system is undergoingcore "post-truth" meltdown.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times. To get started finding Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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