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Marx for Beginners

by Rius · 1976

Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book series

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A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a biography of "Charlie" Marx besides.

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Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate, understandable, and very, very funny.

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thiseconomicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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short · 160 pages
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“If it was the marxism that hooked you, try one of these.”

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