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In the 144 years since Karl Marx's'Das Kapital' was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy has never been more timely. Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and analyses the spectacular reversal of Marxism's fortunes over the past thirty years. (Verlagstext)

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Eine ausführliche Rezension von Terry Eagleton im 'London Review of Books' finden Sie

"[...] "Part One" contains rather diverse studies of aspects of the thought of Marx and Engels, ranging from a relatively slight introduction to the latter's The Condition of the Working Class in England to a dense explication of Marx's thinking about "pre-capitalist formations" in the unfinished work known simply as the Grundrisse.

"Part Two", which may be of more interest to the contemporary reader, comes close to providing an overview of the fortunes of Marxism in the (almost) 130 years since Marx's death in 1883. It is these chapters that most notably exhibit Hobsbawm's trademark combination of lucid analysis and breathtaking range. Nearly all historians look parochial in his company. Who else could, while doing detailed justice to the history of major Marxist political movements in countries such as Germany and France, also provide an authoritative little riff on the differences between Danish and Finnish Marxism? Who else would we trust when, having itemised the translations of Das Kapital from Azerbaijani to Yiddish, he confidently concludes: "The only other major linguistic extension of Capital occurred in independent India, with editions in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali in the 1950s and 1960s"? [...]" (Quelle: http://www.guardian.co.uk ; vollst. Rezension s. unten angeführten Link)