On Marx Revolutionary and Utopian [Paperback]

When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was above all a revolutionary. For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics and philosophy was not to diagnose human society but toA lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx.