Marx at 193
by John Lanchester
Marx doesn’t use the word ‘capitalism’. The term never occurs in the finished first part
of Das Kapital. Since he is widely, and accurately, seen as capitalism’s greatest critic,
this is quite an omission.
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A Human Being
by Jenny Diski
They say, and it does seem to be true, that we get the prime ministers and presidents we deserve. Now, it looks as if each generation is going to get the Karl Marx it deserves.
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Indomitable
by Terry Eagleton
Marxism is about leisure, not labour. It is a project that should be eagerly supported by all those who dislike having to work. It holds that the most precious activities are those done simplyfor the hell of it, and that art is in this sense the paradigm of authentic human activity
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The Marx Sisters
by V.G. Kiernan
Eleanor’s letters are full of detail about the labour movement in Britain, the unskilled and women workers now flocking into trade unions, and socialist sects and factions and their feuding. ‘It would all be very funny if it weren’t very sad,’ she wrote of these, as she might well write today.
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How Much Is Too Much?
by Benjamin Kunkel
The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism.
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Red Jenny
by Rosemary Ashton
One way of confronting the annoying fact that many women ‘have no histories’ is to invent
histories for them. The knack is perhaps most needed when a woman has lived a not entirely
invisible life, but one partially hidden behind a famous husband.
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