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Marx in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In Marx in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Marx's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Marx's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place Marx within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
What the critics say
"Well-written, clear, and informed, they have a breezy wit about them. I find them hard to stop reading." (The New York Times)
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- Karandeep S.
- 2022-08-15
A good and overall balanced approach to Marx
This audiobook is about Marx's history while dominantly discussing how he developed his ideas throughout his life. The emphasis on his dialectic transformations tells the listener a lot about what events caused him to change his theories. This audiobook praises Marx at some times and critiques him at others and simultaneously discusses the flaws in capitalism
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- Randwulfen
- 2022-05-10
Marx's Life
This was more of a history of Marx's life rather than about Marxism or Communism, it had a distinct American prejudice of Communism as a failure and Capitalism as a success story, which is factually and historically untrue despite the global propaganda from the mainstream media they own...Marx merely underestimated the extent to which Capitalist would go to protect their power and wealth, to stave off the Communist evolution.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-10-10
this gets significant portions of Marx wrong
the Marxist tradition is complicated and interconnected, making it difficult to summarize in 90 minutes. with that limitation in mind, I wasn't expecting too much. however, this did not even meet my low expectations. not only did it have a strong Pro capitalist bias which was mildly irritating, but there are places where he misunderstands key concepts.
the most egregious misrepresentation is of the labor theory of value. he seems to think that the Marxist theory is in conflict with the laws of supply and demand, but when Marx introduces the LTV he has already made the assumption that goods are trading at their equilibrium price. from this assumption, he concludes that the exchange value of a good is determined by the socially necessary labor time needed to produce it plus the costs of materials and machinery used in the manufacturer process. price is a money value that fluctuates around the exchange value.
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