Book description
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's
world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the
vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.
Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany and studied in Bonn and
Berlin. Influenced by Hegel, he later reacted against idealist
philosophy and began to develop his own theory of historical
materialism. He related the state of society to its economic
foundations and mode of production, and recommended armed revolution
on the part of the proletariat. Together with Engels, who he met in
Paris, he wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party. He lived in
England as a refugee until his death in 1888, after participating in
an unsuccessful revolution in Germany.
Ernst Mandel was a member of the Belgian TUV from 1954 to 1963 and
was chosen for the annual Alfred Marshall Lectures by Cambridge
University in 1978. He died in 1995 and the Guardian described him as
'one of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxist
thinkers of the post-war world.'
