Volume 25, Number 11 · June 29, 1978
Inescapable Marx
By Robert L. Heilbroner
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Karl Marx Library
edited by Saul K. Padover
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 7 volumes pp.
The Marx-Engels Reader
edited by Robert C. Tucker
Norton, 2nd edition, 788 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The Making of Marx's Capital
by Roman Rosdolsky, translated by Pete Burgess
Pluto Press, distributed by Humanities Press, 581 pp., $35.00
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
by David McLellan
Harper & Row, 498 pp., $12.50
Karl Marx
by David McLellan
Penguin, 110 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life
by Jerrold Seigel
Princeton University Press, 451 pp., $16.50
Marx's Theory of History
by William Shaw
Stanford University Press, 202 pp., $12.50
The Structure of Marx's World-View
by John McMurtry
Princeton University Press, 269 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today
by Antony Cutler, by Barry Hindess, by Paul Hirst, by Athar Hussain
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2 volumes, 307 pp., $8.25 (paper)
Marxist Perspectives: Vol. I, No. 1, Spring 1978
420 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024, $15.00 a year
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Part One: The State and Bureaucracy
by Hal Draper
Monthly Review Press, 2 volumes, 728 pp., $28.50
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
by Hal Draper
Monthly Review Press, 800 pp., $20.00
The Marxian Legacy
by Dick Howard
Urizen Books, 340 pp., $6.95 (paper)
We are in the midst of an extraordinary outpouring of literature on, about, into, out of, and by Marx.[1] As with all such efflorescences, much of the writing is of small importance and will be of short life, all the more so because the field is being taken over by academics who worry their small points into books and articles of increasingly esoteric significance. Nonetheless, the outpouring attests to more than the academization of Marx. It testifies to the growing fascination that Marx's thought exerts over our time—a fascination that has survived a hundred debunkings, 'disproofs,' and disillusionments to reassert itself as the great intellectual challenge whose measure must be taken by everyone seeking to understand the social condition of mankind.
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