"What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to … this magnificent work that situates Marx and Engels's writing against the background of the entire nineteenth-century world … of scientific problems, from physics to historiography. One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and …

"Karl Marx circles us, and we him. This reflects the power of his legacy, but it also indicates the nature of the … circling Marx for forty years. This volume of essays expands the metaphor by working through three circles in the history of … Marxism. The first works with Marx; the second with the classical legacy, through to Bolshevism and western marxism; the third …