Table of Contents

• : Introduction
• : Marx's early life
• • : Europe at the time of Marx
  • : Early life of Marx
  • : Academic life
  • : Life as a journalist
  • : The Communist Manifesto
  • : Exile
  • : Summary
• : Marx's later life
• • : Marx and Engels
  • : Family and life in London
  • : Work and study in London
  • : Das Kapital
  • : The final years
  • : Summary
• : Marx and Philosophy
• • : Greek philosophers
  • : French materialists
  • : German materialists
  • : Anarchists
  • : British philosophers and social reformers
  • : Marx's philosophical viewpoint
  • : Summary
• : Dialectical materialism and society
• • : Dialects and dialectical materialism
  • : Capitalism and socialism
  • : Economics and class structure
  • : Summary
• : Economic theory
• • : The capitalist economy
  • : The theory of surplus value
  • : Labour theory of value
  • : Money and capital
  • : Labour and labour power
  • : Profit
  • : The division of labour
  • : Summary
• : Economy and society
• • : Economy and history
  • : Fetishism
  • : Imperialism and colonialism
  • : Alienation
  • : Capitalism in crisis
  • : Summary
• : Class Struggle and revolution
• • : Bougeois and proletariat
  • : Class and class struggle
  • : Reform and revolution
  • : Communism
  • : Summary
• : Society and ideology
• • : Ideology
  • : Religion
  • : Art and culture
  • : Gender and women's rights
  • : Freedom and the individual
  • : Summary
• : Marxism after Marx
• • : The spread of Marxist thought
  • : World communism
  • : The cold war
  • : The fall of communism
  • : Marx's influence today
  • : Summary
• : Taking it further
• : Index

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About the Author

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padova in 1956. At the age of 19 he was arrested on suspicion of murdering a female student, a crime for which he was only acquitted after eighteen years, eleven trials, one successful escape attempt and finally a Presidential Pardon. Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari in 1961. A former anti-Mafia judge, he is the author of eight novels, including The Past is a Foreign Country, for which he won the Premio Bancarella. Giancarlo De Cataldo is an Italian magistrate turned crime writer. He is the editor of Crimini, The Bitter Lemon book of Italian Crime Fiction.