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Marx : a very short introduction / Peter Singer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brief insightPublication details: New York : Sterling, c2009.Description: ix, 150 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 1402768885
  • 9781402768880
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Contents:
A life and its impact -- The young Hegelian -- From god to money -- Enter the proletariat -- The first Marxism -- Alienation as a theory of history -- The goal of history -- Economics -- Communism -- An assessment.
Summary: Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Singer sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of "Capital," and Marx's ideas of communism in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy.
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Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Singer sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital , and Marx's ideas of communism in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-142) and index.

A life and its impact -- The young Hegelian -- From god to money -- Enter the proletariat -- The first Marxism -- Alienation as a theory of history -- The goal of history -- Economics -- Communism -- An assessment.

Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Singer sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of "Capital," and Marx's ideas of communism in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy.

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