Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:23:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: Biography of Marx I do not think Cliff's bio of Lenin is even as good as the other (bourgeois) biographies, particularly Service's. It strikes me as a chronological narrative interspered with sometimes tendentious, occasionally astute comments on L's ideas and tactics. The bio of Trotsky is similar. That of Luxemburg, really a commentray, is a good deal better. Callinicos' little book on Marx is pretty good, although for a survey of Marx's ideas I much prefer Richard Schmitt's Introduction to Marx and Engels (Westview). Neither stands, on a literary level, up to Berlin's Karl Marx. --Justin On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Jorn Andersen wrote: > While I was trying to make a clean up in my > mail boxes I found this: > > Justin Schwartz wrote: > > There are no good bios of Lenin. > > Justin then lists some of the "no goods". > > One unmentioned biography is Tony Cliff: Lenin (3 vols). > I would recommend it as an easy read (even for those > of us who don't read English as our first language). > > If you get an older edition it was in 4 vols - in the > newest vols 3+4 are put together. > > Tony Cliff also wrote a short biography of Luxemburg and > has recently finished a 4 vol biography of Trotsky (I > think especially vol 4 about Trotsky in the 30's is really > worth reading. > > About Marx Alex Callinicos has written "The Revolutionary > Ideas of Karl Marx". > > All of them are published by Bookmarks (London, Chicago, > Melbourne) and the authors are leading members of the > Socialist Workers' Party (UK) - Just a warning :-) > > > Yours > > Jorn Andersen > > IS > Denmark > > > > > --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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