TY - BOOK AU - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 AU - Elster, Jon, 1940- TI - Karl Marx : : a reader SN - 978-0521338325 U1 - 335.4 MAR PY - 1986///?] CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Marxian economics KW - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 KW - Communism KW - Economics Theories of Marx, Karl N1 - Includes index N2 - This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx's most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology. Jon Elster provides a brief introduction to each selection to explain its context and its place in Marx's argument. The volume is designed as a companion to Elster's An Introduction to Karl Marx and the thematic structure of each book is the same. But the Reader can also stand on its own and offers the student a substantial and revealingly organized selection of the crucial texts needed to understand and assess Marx's views ER -