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Continuing sources of Marxism

From LRB, Benjamin Kunkel reviews The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism and A Companion to Marx’s "Capital", by David Harvey. Marxism, politics, and evil: A review of Ethical Marxism by Bill Martin. A review of Re-reading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical Edition. The New Luther: Roand Boer on Marx and the Reformation as Revolution. Robert Paul Wolff has a series on the thought of Karl Marx. Karl Marx, in London for a book signing, stumbles off the Eurostar and straight into an interview at a cafe in King’s Cross — how does the credit crunch fit with the guru’s theory of crisis? Looking for the movement as a whole: Richard Levins on continuing sources of Marxism. Has another Marx been revealed? An interview with Marcello Musto, author of The Rediscovery of Karl Marx. A review of How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm (and more and more and more and more and more and more). In 1995, Robert Skidelsky published a book called The World After Communism; today, he wonders whether there will be a world after capitalism. Where now? The left must go back to its roots — but modernised Marxism is not the answer. A review of A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism by Silvio Pons. "Communist Monopoly": A Polish research institute has developed a board game to teach young people about life under Communism. An interview with Peter Hitchens on the perils of ideology.