How To Read Karl Marx
Over the last 150 years, Karl Marx has been invoked in connection with everything from unemployment insurance to Hollywood to guerrilla wars. Any number of inte rnational movements have claimed his teachings as their inspiration. Time after time, authorities have proclaimed the death of Marx's theories while new and old audiences continue to draw vital insight from the works of one of the most important and controversial philosophers and economists of the industrial era. How To Read Karl Marx is one of the best introductions to the writings of Karl Marx currently available to the non-specialist general reader. It includes a biographical chronology,  extracts from the major works of Marx, and "Marx's Method" (a valuable essay by political economist Paul M. Sweezy. How To Read Karl Marx is a highly recommended addition to school and community library collections.  --Midwest Book Review