Melbourne Journal of Politics, January 1st, 1999
Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx. London: fourth estate. $49.95.
A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe.
This is the hobgoblin of Communism, appearing in the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1850. As this initial quotation demonstrates, Francis Wheen's Karl Marx presents a dramatic blend of the familiar and surprising, with due regard to literary images and historical sources. It is a mixture fully realised throughout the book, marked as it is by irony, humour, conflict and suffering.
Karl Marx is an excellent biography for the g...
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