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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern social Hell. In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Marx's Inferno
• Author: William Clare Roberts
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780691180816
• ISBN: 9780691180816
• ID: 18210181
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 236 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. March 2018

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