From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn_Andersen?= <ccc6639-AT-vip.cybercity.dk>
Subject: Re: OTTO RUHLE'S BIO OF MARX
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:02:41 +-100



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curtis price[SMTP:cansv-AT-igc.apc.org]
13. februar 1996 00:46
Re: OTTO RUHLE'S BIO OF MARX

>
>writings to illustrate these points. i don't know how it compares to
>other biographys of Marx since it is the only one I have read
>(outside of Alex Callinicos's book).
>

Just this:
I haven't read Ruhles book - from your short presentation it might be worth reading - but I will strongly recommend Callinicos' book as a good and very *political* introduction to Marx's ideas. I think it has a good balance between trying to explain Marx's ideas in his own time on the one hand, and on the other you can feel throughout the book, that Callinicos has tried to present his ideas with a focus on the ideas, that we can use today.

After all thats not so bad. If I - or you - disagree with this or that point in a biography of Marx is not as important as whether the presentation of the ideas of a great thinker and fighter is somehow related to the thoughts and the fights we face today. ( which, I'm sorry, quite a few bio's around don't... )

This is _especially_ true for a biography of the man who in his twenties wrote:

"Philosophers have merely interpreted the world.
The point is to change it."


Callinicos' book is:

"The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx"
by Alex Callinicos
Bookmarks 1983 (Several reprints, but I think it has recently been published in a new edition??)


Jorn Andersen
ccc6639-AT-vip.cybercity.dk

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