Karl Marx: A biography by David McLellan

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E. R. Browder, Marx and America (London, 1959). A useful brief overview of the
position of America in Marx's thought.
B. Delfgaauw, The Young Marx (London, 1967). A short account of the ideas of
the young Marx and their relevance today.
R. N. Carew-Hunt, The Theory and Practice of Communism (London, 1963). Con-
tains a rather over-schematised and unreliable section on Marx.
J. Carlebach, Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of Judaism (London, 1978). Very
good on the Jewishness of Marx.
J. Carmichael, Karl Marx. The Passionate Logician (London, 1968). A shortish
biography.
E. H. Carr, Karl Marx. A Study in Fanaticism (London, 1943). A well-written
critical biography of medium length.
A. Carter, Marx: A Radical Critique (Brighton, 1988). A critique of Marx from an
anarchist point of view.
T. Carver, Marx's Social Theory (Oxford, 1982). A short, clear exposition.
T. Carver, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Marx (Cambridge, 1991). A good
collection of essays linking Marx to contemporary questions in the social
sciences.
S. Chang, The Marxian Theory of the State (Philadelphia 1931 ; new ed. 1965). A
good exposition, but one which conflates the ideas of Marx and Lenin.
G. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History. A Defence (Oxford, 1978). A powerful
book of great philosophical subdety and logical nuance.
G., Cohen, History, Labour and Freedom (Oxford, 1988). A collection revising, and
expanding on, his earlier work.
G. D. H. Cole, What Marx Really Meant (London, 1934). A sympathetic and
systematic exposition of Marx's ideas.
G. D. H. Cole, History of Socialist Thought (London, 1953 , vols 1 and 2). A
measured and well-researched placing of Marx in the history of socialist
thought.
H. Collins and C. Abramsky, Karl Marx and the British Labour Movement. Years of
the First International (London, 1965). A very well-documented account
of Marx's part in the First International with special reference to Britain.
D. Conway, A Farewell to Marx: An Outline and Appraisal of his Theories
(Harmondsworth, 1987). An attempt to show that Marx got everything
wrong.
R. Cooper, The Logical Influence of Hegel on Marx (Seattle, 1925). An interesting,
though dated, comparison of the dialectics of Hegel and Marx.
A. Cornu, The Origins of Marxian Thought (Springfield, 1957). Deals with the
development of Marx's ideas up to the mid 1840s.
M. Curtis (ed.), Marxism (New York, 1970). A wide-ranging reprint of articles on
Marx's thought.

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