As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...

Marx war eigentlich kein "Marxist". Zum Marxisten haben ihn spätere Generationen gemacht. Die Biografie rekonstruiert demgegenüber Leben und Werk von Marx gut lesbar und fundiert anhand der Zeitumstände des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch eröffnet neue Perspektiven und einen zeitgemäe︢n Blick...

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all...