Marxism: A Graphic Guide: A Graphic Guide
By Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate
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Beautiful new edition of a classic comic-book introduction to Marxist thought.
Karl Marx was one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th century, inspiring revolutions and colossal political upheavals that have radically transformed the lives of millions of people and the geopolitical map of the entire world.
But was he a ‘Marxist’ himself? And how are his ideas still in play in today’s society?
Marxism: A Graphic Guide traces the story of Marx’s original philosophy, from its roots in 19th-century European thinkers like Hegel, to its influence on modern-day culture. It looks at Marxism’s Russian disciples, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, who forged a ruthless, dogmatic Communism, and the alternative Marxist approaches of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the structuralist Marxism of Althusser in the 1960s.
Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate’s classic book, updated by Alex Locascio, explores the life, history, philosophy and politics of this most divisive of thinkers, and argues that Marxism remains a powerful set of ideas even today.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent concise book. Once i started could not stop reading it. And the cartoons are awesome. ❤
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5100 million people plus dead from Marxism - 45 million in China, 56 million in Russia - and people still give it credibility. Usually academics who don't live in the real world. When will they ever learn? Marxism promises the poor and misanthropic everything but delivers nothing but misery. You can be free... by surrendering all your freedoms. There's a sucker born every minute, I guess. Go and watch "The Killing Fields" and then see how much you love Marxism.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Don't be mislead by the graphic format of this "introduction" to Marxism. It's a serious and fairly dense overview of Marxism from its inception through the misguided years of the Soviet-style version to post-modern interpretations and critiques of classical Marxism. Its compactness makes this a good way to delve deeper into the philosophical and historical aspects of this profoundly important political, economic and social current of thought.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This useful introduction to Marxism provides a concise but quite comprehensive overview of the subject, explaining both its historical development and the main tenets of Marxist (and post-Marxist) thought.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These little graphic guides are rather brilliant introductions to various subjects. Rupert Woodfin & Oscar Zarate have made an easy to read critical introduction to Marxism starting with Hegel and ending in post-modernism and post-Marxism. The illustrations are both humorous and informative and the text formed as a form of narrative.
Highly recommendable if you want an easy to read introduction or just want to brush up on your Marxist theories. The book is also filled with a lot of suggestions to further reading as well as a small, useful dictionary of Marxist terms.
4 out of 5 stars for a job well done.3 people found this helpful