On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian

by Alan Ryan

Book Overview

When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics and philosophy was not to diagnose human society but to change it. According to Marx, history was defined by class conflict, with the state heretofore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871407930
• ISBN13: 9780871407931
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.7" x 7.4"