KARL MARX

SELECT CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 453
P. Demetz, Marx, Engels and the Poets (Chicago, 1967). An assessment of the views
of Marx and Engels as literary critics.
M. Dobb, Marx as an Economist (London, 1943). One of the best short introductions
to Marx as an economist.
H. Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, 3 vols, (New York, i977ff). A splendidly
detailed discussion aiming to show that Marx was always right.
Z. Duan, Marx's Theory of Social Formation (Avebury, 1995). An original interpretation
of Marx's periodisation of history which takes issue with Cohen.
R. Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom (New York, 1958). Contains sections on
the philosophical aspects of the 1844 Manuscripts and Capital.
L. Dupre, The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism (New York, 1966). A straightforward
discussion of Marx's thought up to the Communist Manifesto, with
some preliminary chapters on Hegel.
J. Elster, Making Sense of Marx (Cambridge, 1985). A sharp, hard-headed view of
what in Marx makes sense from a 'rational choice' perspective.
J. Elster, An Introduction to Marx (Cambridge, 1986). An excellent introduction -
rigorous and accessible.
M. Evans, Karl Marx (London and New York, 1975). An excellent introduction,
concentrating on the historical and political.
J. Ferraro, Freedom and Determination in History according to Marx and Engels (New
York, 1992). Argues for the dialectic between freedom and determinism as
the core of Marx's thought.
I. Fetscher, Marx and Marxism (New York, 1971). Contains articles on the continuity
in Marx's thought, bureaucracy, future communist society, and so on.
B. Fine, Marx's Capital (London, 1975). A good short introduction.
E. Fischer, Marx in His Own Words (London, 1970). A slight, but faithful, runthrough
of Marx's main ideas.
I. Forbes, Marx and the New Individual (Boston, 1990). A thorough discussion of
the sense in which Marx was an individualist.
E. Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man (New York, 1963). This introduction to selections
from the '1844 Manuscripts' portrays Marx as a humanist and existentialist
thinker.
A. Gamble and P. Walton, From Alienation to Surplus Value (London, 1972). Concentrates
on labour and surplus value as unifying themes in Marx's works
with special attention paid to the Grundrisse and Theories of Surplus Value.
R. Garaudy, Karl Marx: The Evolution of His Thought (London, 1967). A reliable
and readable account by (at the time of writing) an orthodox communist.
H. Gemkow and others, Karl Marx. A Biography (Berlin, 1970). A well-documented,
but quite uncritical, piece of hagiography.
A. Gilbert, Marx's Politics. Communists and Citizens (London, 1981). Re-evaluates
Marx's theory and practice in the 1848 revolutions and finds him a proto-
Leninist.