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重現Rupert Woodfin及插畫家Oscar Zarate經典作品─馬克思主義入門集
探索影響世界至深的思想家馬克思的人生、歷史、哲學及政治理念

卡爾‧馬克思曾是影響19世紀最深遠的思想家，他所提倡的馬克思主義激發了重大改革及巨大的政治動盪，因而改變世界幾萬人民的生活及地緣政治。但馬克思本人真的是馬克思主義的崇尚者嗎？馬克思主義在現今社會是否仍扮演重要角色？

透過馬克思主義追朔到馬克思最原有的哲學思想，源自19世紀歐洲思想者黑格爾，直到至今如何影響現代文化思想。崇尚馬克思主義的俄羅斯門徒包括列寧、托洛斯基和史達林等人因而鑄造了無情、獨裁的共產主義，葛蘭西另類的馬克思主義思維造就了文化霸權理論，批判理論和60年代結構主義的馬克思主義。

Karl Marx was one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th century, inspiring revolutions and colossal political upheavals that have radically transformed the lives of millions of people and the geopolitical map of the entire world. But was he a ‘Marxist’ himself? And how are his ideas still in play in today’s society?

Marxism traces the story of Marx’s original philosophy, from its roots in 19th-century European thinkers like Hegel, to its influence on modern-day culture. It looks at Marxism’s Russian disciples, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, who forged a ruthless, dogmatic Communism, and the alternative Marxist approaches of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School of critical theory and the structuralist Marxism of Althusser in the 1960s.

Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate’s classic book, updated by Alex Locascio, explores the life, history, philosophy and politics of this most divisive of thinkers, and argues that Marxism remains a powerful set of ideas even today.