Marx After Marxism

"After a period of drought in serious Marx scholarship, the publication of Rockmore's book, at once so well informed and so informative in both philosophical and historical terms, is a marker event. It makes a strong and clear case, by means of a careful survey of Marx's own texts, for resituating him in the tradition of German idealism and separating him from the accrued excess baggage of later ‘Marxisms." William L. McBride, Purdue University <!--end-->

"The decline of communism has been accompanied by a decline in interest in Marx. Rockmore's Marx After Marxism is the beginning of a new assessment of Marx that will help reverse that trend. The book's overall stance concerns what Marx got out of Hegel at different times in his own development. Rockmore also gives a fine account of Marx's main work in political economy, especially the central ideas of Capital; this is where any Marx revival should focus in providing a critique of our own society." Robert Nola, University of Auckland