Synopses & Reviews
The republication of Karl Korschs classic Karl Marx makes available to a new generation of readers the most concise account of Marxs thought by one of the major figures of twentieth-century Western Marxism. Conceived of as a popularization for non-specialist readers, Korsch wanted his book to serve as a handbook for the American labor movement.
Review
"[I]n its compactness and objectivity the book is a useful theoretical tool for proletarian class aspirations, we cannot in reviewing it do better than to indicate, though inadequately, its richness and value."
Paul Mattick
Synopsis
A bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marxs thought, by a major figure of twentieth-century Western Marxism.
About the Author
Karl Korsch (1886-1961) was one of the most significant Marxist writers of the twentieth century. Along with Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness, Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy (1923) stands as one of the two major contributions to the study of the philosophical underpinnings of Marxist theory.