Marx, dead and alive : reading Capital in precarious times

"In "Marx, Dead and Alive" - a book that begins and ends beside Marx's recently violated London graveside - Andy Merrifield makes a case for Karl Marx, a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with examples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective - and within a historical continuum."