Re: [Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Compare also to Sven-Eric Liedman, *A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx - *also a comprehensive and sympathetic work, especially good on the writing of *Capital *and generally in relating the life and times to the economic and political works. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3001-a-world-to-win On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:44 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > On 8/13/19 9:37 AM, Angelus Novus via Marxism wrote: > > > > > > The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available > from Monthly Review Press. Presumably it was written before publication of > the English edition. > > "Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with > Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an > unparalleled work of scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our > understanding of capitalist society, while cutting down the overgrown myths > about him. It confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s thought with the > weapons of critique. It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx think > about the meaning his times, concepts and ideas have for the present." > > > https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01 > > I'm 90 pages into this for a CounterPunch review. Heinrich's research is > impressive, especially in shedding light on Karl Marx's father Heinrich > who converted to Protestantism mainly to avoid anti-Semitic laws that > would prevent him from becoming a lawyer. He was also a revolutionary > democrat who helped organize a banquet where the left-leaning residents > of Trier sang the "Marseilles" and other revolutionary songs from 1789. > When I sit down to write my review, it will be interesting to compare > this book (which is the first in a multi-volume series) to the classics > like Mehring and newer books by Sperber and Wheen that I only have read > in part. I won't waste time with this jerk. > > https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/15/who-is-gareth-stedman-jones-and-why-is-he-saying-such-stupid-things-about-marx/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 8/13/19 9:37 AM, Angelus Novus via Marxism wrote: The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available from Monthly Review Press. Presumably it was written before publication of the English edition. "Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an unparalleled work of scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our understanding of capitalist society, while cutting down the overgrown myths about him. It confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s thought with the weapons of critique. It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx think about the meaning his times, concepts and ideas have for the present." https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01 I'm 90 pages into this for a CounterPunch review. Heinrich's research is impressive, especially in shedding light on Karl Marx's father Heinrich who converted to Protestantism mainly to avoid anti-Semitic laws that would prevent him from becoming a lawyer. He was also a revolutionary democrat who helped organize a banquet where the left-leaning residents of Trier sang the "Marseilles" and other revolutionary songs from 1789. When I sit down to write my review, it will be interesting to compare this book (which is the first in a multi-volume series) to the classics like Mehring and newer books by Sperber and Wheen that I only have read in part. I won't waste time with this jerk. https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/15/who-is-gareth-stedman-jones-and-why-is-he-saying-such-stupid-things-about-marx/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available from Monthly Review Press. Presumably it was written before publication of the English edition. "Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an unparalleled work of scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our understanding of capitalist society, while cutting down the overgrown myths about him. It confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s thought with the weapons of critique. It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx think about the meaning his times, concepts and ideas have for the present." https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
