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Article: Karl Marx.(Review)
- Article from:
- Melbourne Journal of Politics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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 general reader and for undergraduates daunted by the ...