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# Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

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    The man Who Spoke One Way and Walked the Other
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2019*

A detailed account, most fair in balance as trying not to purposely make the man a monster (but by objective criticism you cannot come to any other conclusion).The great hypocrite and false prophet himself. This poisonous tree of Marxism produces gleaming fruits that are lustful to the eye but its "nutrients" are filled with diabolical poison fatal to its Victim. That tree is Karl Marx. The man wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote without end a study of economics without ever coming to the solution. Despite a mixture of laziness and brilliant discipline, he was hardly ever producing anything on time, nor was he ever working a job that demanded labor or anything productive. He, like a parasite, lived off others his whole life, shirked his debtors, drank into belligerence, was hated by Leftist, and committed adultery on his loving wife (their relationship is somewhat to be admired despite their hatred for Christians) with a servant girl he exploited despite speaking out against patriarchal exploitation of women! He despised the very workers he wanted to liberate and produced nothing but hatred and venom for the inhabitants of the earth. His hate is directly responsible for the Communist demon born in Russia in 1917. Verdict: He is a bad man. Know the false prophets by their fruits, not just their utopian promises.Any good? He loved his wife (despite his adultery, bastard son with the servant girl, and cover up) and his children.

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    Restoring Reality
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2013*

The closer you look at a thinker, the harder it is to say what he thought.  The simplifying of Marx, often inspired by those both pro and con, reduces him to class struggle, theory of surplus value, dialectical materialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the falling rate of profit, etc.  Sperber's biography  goes a good way towards showing that Marx's actual thinking is much more dynamic, more complex, and less consistent.Sperber's intention is to treat Marx, as the subtitle indicates, as a nineteenth century figure, in the context of nineteenth century thought and events.  And he does so admirably.  He avoids the iconic Marx, created primarily by twentieth century thought and events, allowing us to see Marx as a thinker among thinkers and as a revolutionary among revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries of his own time.I am not a Marx scholar by any means.  I have not studied Marx as closely as other 19th century thinkers (Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), and I don't have the background in the history of economics to pick up the subtleties of Capital or to criticize Marx's principal contentions there and elsewhere.  But Sperber's book does give me the broader context and at least the rudiments of Marx's thinking to put together for myself an historical picture of Marx's intellectual development and something of the development of the culture of revolutionary thinking during the mid-nineteenth century.Marx never had the leisure to be a "philosopher" in the traditional sense.  He never held academic positions.  Instead he pieced together a career as a journalist, surprisingly even a popular journalist at times, to help make ends meet for himself, his family, and his causes.  He didn't always succeed, and, of course, he famously depended on the support of Engels to remain afloat financially.But through the journals he founded or contributed to and through mostly unfinished manuscripts of a more theoretical nature, we can see something of the evolution of his thought, sometimes punctuated by issues of personality and struggles within the politics of revolutionary movements.  Sperber is particular adamant in his portrayal of Marx as an Hegelian to the end, somewhat contrary to the portrait, encouraged by Engels, of Marx as a positivist economist, constructing theories from hard economic data.  Underlying the theories is always the sense of historical development, a rationale, in Hegelian manner, to the progressions that Marx saw in the forms of labor and the organization of production.The book is also a personal biography.  Sperber presents a convincing account of Marx's troubled devotion to his family.  In fact, he goes some way toward pointing out the apparent contradiction between the traditional attitudes Marx had toward family, the role of men as fathers and breadwinners, and bourgeois morals and respectability.  The personal Marx was inescapably a man of his time.It's no sanitizing account of Marx as a person, though.  Marx could certainly be petty.  Sperber follows a running theme of Marx's penchant for attacking those around him, both personally and publicly.  Within the circles of revolutionaries, it was if Marx attempted to monopolize what was (and still is) a broad spectrum of what could be called "socialism" and even covered the tracks of his own intellectual development by harshly criticizing those who thought what he once thought but has changed his mind about.It's hard to write a book about Marx.  Everybody already knows who Marx is, or they think they do.  For us, Marx is polarizing.  Are you pro or con?  It's a sucker's question, and a way to close, not open, thinking.  Hopefully, Sperber's book will help a little bit to bring discussion of Marx back to the real Marx rather than that iconic Marx of twentieth-century making.

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    Great Book on Marx
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019*

Marx and his theories can evoke all sorts of responses. As a theory that has launched a thousand rebellions it is useful to understand the man himself. This book does quite a reasonable job at that. The author is a clear writer and he manages to cohesive take one through Marx's life and the times that influenced him.The author is an expert of the revolutions of 1848, a period which managed to change Europe and set the stage for the next hundred and fifty years. Marx is a product of that time, building on Hegel and German thought, conflicting with Proudhon and French throught, and assimilating in a dialectical manner Locke and English thought. Marx as a writer can be ponderous and exhilerating.The book takes one step by step through his development and the forces that created Capital. This is not a book describing Marxism, it is a book about Marx.  It is definitely something one should read to better understand the man, his ideas and the times that made them.

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