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Review: Karl Marx and the birth of modern society
- eternalban 5y agoI'm reading this right now and Heinrich impresses with his rigorous approach to the biographical program. Very readable and highly informative, specially in regards to European scene circa 19th century. He also has written "How to read das capital" which is on my to-read list. (Funny aside: when the Iranian revolution broke out, and I was a recently minted teenager, Das Kapital was on sale on the bookstands outside of Tehran University -- this is during the brief "spring" before Mullahs consolidated power -- and I remember buying the whole set to read. Don't precisely recall what I made of it. Quite soon after that we departed for America and naturally left the book behind.) https://monthlyreview.org/product/how-to-read-marxs-capital/ https://monthlyreview.org/product/how-to-read-marxs-capital/ & Here is an interview with Heinrich by the author of the OP (2018): https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/interviews/interview-with-michael-heinrich https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/interviews/interview-w...
- ferdowsi 5y agoThat must have been a very exciting few months!
- eternalban 5y agoThe excitement was in the previous winter. It was a very strange time with strange scenes. For example, seeing children of avowed Marxists in the school yard shouting for Khomeini, etc., and then streets full of wild eyed occupants of cars buzzing through the streets waving handguns out the window. Of course now, in hindsight and having seen multiple color revolutions deployed and broadcasted via media the Iranian revolution of '78-79 is no longer such a cryptic event, in my mind. It is interesting in fact, in context of Marx and his theoretical views on the 'mechanics of history' to note the role of psychology, specifically group psychology, in the possibly choreographed unfolding of human events. This is possibly a dimension that he overlooked.