KARL MARX

SELECT CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 453
E. P. Kandel, Marx and Engels. The Organizers of the Communist League (Moscow,
1953). Contains much information on Marx in the late 1840s.
K. J. Kenafick, Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx (Melbourne, 1948: privately
printed). A lengthy account of their relationship by a disciple of Bakunin.
A. C. Kettle, Karl Marx, Founder of Modern Communism (London, 1963). A good
short biography by a communist.
L. Kolakowski, Marxism and Beyond (London, 1968). Contains essays highlighting
the relationship between the individual and history in Marx's thought.
L. Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1978). A thorough
discussion of Marx's thought from a mainly philosophical point of view.
H. Koren, Marx and the Authentic Man (Duquesne, 1967). A short description of
Marx's 'humanist' conception of man.
K Korsch, Karl Marx (New York, 1936). An insightful biography by an excommunist.
K. Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (London, 1971). A brilliant reassessment of the
Hegelian elements in Marx.
H. Lefebvre, The Sociology of Marx (London, 1968). An excellent introduction to
Marx's sociology.
G. Leff, The Tyranny of Concepts (London, 1961). An important critique of Marx's
materialist conception of history.
J. Lewis, The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (London, 1965). A good mediumlength
biography presenting Marx in a favourable light.
J. Lewis, The Marxism of Marx (London, 1972). A wise and humane commentary
by a veteran communist.
G. Lichtheim, Marxism, an Historical and Critical Study (London, t96r). An excellent
study of the development of Marxist doctrines from their origins up
to t9t7-
G. Lichtheim, From Marx to Hegel (New York, 1971). Contains a series of essays
on the Hegelian-Marxist tradition up to the present day.
N. Lobkowicz, Theory and Practice, The History of a Marxist Concept (Notre Dame,
1967). An examination of Marx's concept of 'praxis' against a Young Hegelian
background.
N. Lobkowicz (ed.), Marx and the Western World (Notre Dame, 1967). A large
collection of articles on the relevance of Marx's thought today.
D. Lovell, Marx's Proletariat: The Making of a Myth (New York, 1988). Examines
Marx's concept of the proletariat and why his expectations of it proved
misguided.
K. Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (London, ^65). A wide-ranging account of
nineteenth-century German philosophy: Marx is considered, among many
others, in the Hegelian tradition.
(i. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness (London, 1970). An extremely influential
re-emphasis of Hegel's influence on Marx.