Making Sense of Marx

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by Jon Elster

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published October 1990, 556 pages, paper

ISBN 0521297052

This examination of the current relevance of Marxist philosophy argues that Marx's economic theories are largely wrong or irrelevant. It concludes that his most significant achievements are his criticisms of capitalism's characteristics of alienation and exploitation and the theory of class struggle. Copublished with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.