In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still exami
In vivid detail, Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London’s Soho amid po
No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which wa
The 1970s were a theme park of mass paranoia. Strange Days Indeed tells the story of the decade when a distinctive “paranoid style” emerged and seemed to infect all areas of both private
In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ron
A compelling, wide-ranging collection of Karl Marx's journalism-available only from Penguin Classics Karl Marx is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the
