Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979
On Your Marx
By Peter Singer
Marx and History: From Primitive Society to the Communist Future
by D. Ross Gandy
University of Texas Press, 190 pp., $14.95
Marx's Interpretation of History
by Melvin Rader
Oxford University Press, 242 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Marx's Theory of History
by William H. Shaw
Stanford University Press, 202 pp., $12.50
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
by G.A. Cohen
Princeton University Press, 369 pp., $18.50
Standing by Karl Marx's grave, Friedrich Engels spoke to the assembled mourners of Marx's achievements. First among them he placed Marx's discovery of 'the law of development of human history,' a discovery he compared with Darwin's discovery of the law of development of organic nature. Marx's discovery was, Engels went on, that 'mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.'
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