The planet is in crisis because of capitalism and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of “actually existing socialism”, is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique.
The dual aim of this short book is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.
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Preface 7
1. Marx and the Return of Alternatives 13
2. Thus Capital 19
3. Marx and Engels Correspondence: An Extraordinary Erudition 27
4. Friedrich Engels: Much More than the “Second Fiddle” 35
5. The First International and its Contemporary Relevance 47
6. The Possible Alternative of the Paris Commune 59
7. The Concept of Alienation in Marxist Tradition 73
8. Rosa Luxemburg: Anti-Militarism and Revolution 85
9. Abimael Guzmán and the Tragedy of Maoism in the Andes 97
10. War and the Left: Considerations on a Chequered History 107
