Why Marx Was Right
2nd Edition

Ever need a handy compendium to use when you were in discussions with tiresome right-wingers about how Marx and Marxism was a “Fatal Conceit” or “The Road to Serfdom”? (The quoted references are, of course, to anti-socialist tracts by F. A. Hayek.) Well, if you live in the United States, there would......more

3.5 stars. The author shows his knowledge on Marxism and he answers a number of frequently asked questions concerning Marxism in the 21st century societies, he gives out understandable, reasonable explanation as much as he can. However, despite the author's reader-friendly and humorous tone, Marxism......more

I have no notion why the publisher's sought to sell this perfectly reasonable book as "controversial". It is in no way shocking. It is a measured account of a very good thinker. It does contain some of Eagleton's (chiefly) decent jokes, which I always enjoyed as a student when reading his famous, an......more

2019 Re-read and review: First off: I could do with a less clownishly strident, destined-to-be-polarizing cover. I already own the more sedate earlier hardcover, and this one is fated to be given to a friend! Seriously now, though: this book aims to engage a particular kind of reader: one for whom Mar......more

never has the fact that i’m not an auditory learner been more apparent to me than when i finished this audiobook and went that was super interesting but i can’t tell you a single thing about it......more