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"In this updated and revised edition, Paul D'Amato provides a lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples"--Back cover.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'Amato, Paul, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2014.
Edition:Revised and updated edition.
Subjects:
Socialism > History.
Socialism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the relevance of Marxism
  • From millenarianism to Marx
  • Marx's materialist method
  • The Marxist view of history
  • Marxist economics: how capitalism works
  • Marxist economics: how capitalism fails
  • No power greater--the working class
  • Democracy, reform, and revolution
  • From Marx to Lenin: Marxism and political organization
  • Russia: the God that failed?
  • Imperialism, nationalism, and war
  • Marxism and oppression
  • Capitalism's ecological crisis
  • But what about...?: arguments against socialism.