Max Beer, a socialist historian who knew the movement from the inside, gives a short account of Karl Marx: his parents and friends, the formative period in which his ideas took shape, years of agitation, exile and poverty, and the founding of the International Working Men’s Association in London in 1864. He then sets out Marx’s philosophy of history and economic theory.
A clear, sympathetic introduction to Marx written in the years just after the Russian Revolution. Download the free EPUB.