5th Edition with new preface. This book focuses on the origins of Marx's thought and on his early writings especially The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. It was a winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. 'In the hands of a creative thinker conviction and passion can give wings to the freedom struggle. Meszaros' book is a 'winger' - one of the most far-reaching books of on the subject of Marx's theory of alienation since Lukacs' seminal Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein." [History and Class Consciousness] The Review of Metaphysics. 'Immensely learned and well-read" Times Literary Supplement

5th Edition with new preface. This book focuses on the origins of Marx's thought and on his early writings especially The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. It was a winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. 'In the hands of a creative thinker conviction and passion can give wings to the freedom struggle. Meszaros' book is a 'winger' - one of the most far-reaching books of on the subject of Marx's theory of alienation since Lukacs' seminal Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein." [History and Class Consciousness] The Review of Metaphysics. 'Immensely learned and well-read" Times Literary Supplement