Book description
In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's oeuvre, Silva isolates the key elements of his style: his search…
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As an undergraduate in the 1980s studying away while the socialist systems were breaking up, I was struck by the language of The Communist Manifesto; "a spectre is haunting Europe", "all that is solid melts into air", and so on. Later I made a career out of examining the literary features of social scientific texts.
This thin book by a Venezuelan poet and critic was only translated last year, almost 50 years after its first publication, and the parts I had read before made a deep impression on me. Silva is a worthy match for Marx since, for both of…
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