Why Marx Was Right
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Terry Eagleton
Seagull Books
258 pages, R495
In this combative, controversial book, Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking on 10 of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx’s own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by major crises, this is an urgent and timely book.
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