BOOKS FOR THE 99%: POLITICAL THOUGHT
WHY MARX WAS RIGHT | TERRY EAGLETON | YALE | $25 |Terry Eagleton, whose uniquely straightforward Literary Theory: An Introduction will be familiar to our nation's embattled English majors, once again takes fearful readers by the hand to guide them into the opaque waters of difficult writing. This time around, he tackles that conservative bogeyman, Karl Marx. As it turns out, many people don't understand what on earth Marx was saying, and thus assume his theories are total crap that led to death and destruction. Not true, says Eagleton, as he patiently dismantles the arguments against the bearded Prussian - not like capitalism has been working out all that great for us lately, either.
