{"product_id":"2026200013391-secondhand-karl-marx-his-life-thought","title":"Karl Marx: His Life \u0026 Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in modern history have reshaped the world as profoundly as Karl Marx, and David McLellan's landmark biography stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the man behind the revolution. Karl Marx: His Life \u0026amp; Thought chronicles the full arc of Marx's extraordinary life — from his bourgeois upbringing in Trier and his radical student years in Berlin, through his turbulent exile in Paris, Brussels, and finally London — weaving together the personal and the intellectual with remarkable dexterity. McLellan presents Marx not as a distant ideological icon but as a flesh-and-blood thinker: a devoted (if demanding) family man, a ferocious polemicist, and an inexhaustible scholar whose manuscripts piled up faster than any publisher could print them. The result is a biography that is as dramatically compelling as it is intellectually rigorous.\n\nMcLellan's great achievement is his refusal to separate the life from the thought, demonstrating how Marx's evolving philosophy — from the humanist idealism of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts to the granite materialism of Das Kapital — was inextricably shaped by poverty, political persecution, and passionate friendship with Friedrich Engels. Written with clarity and scholarly precision, the work argues persuasively that to understand Marxism, one must first understand Marx the man in all his contradictions. This remains the definitive single-volume study of its subject, and any reader who picks it up will find themselves asking urgent questions about capitalism, history, and human nature that feel no less pressing today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203355844827,"sku":"2026200013391-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/83a9073c-ab49-43e3-90e2-2dd55ea6e48d.png?v=1788147950","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013391-secondhand-karl-marx-his-life-thought","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}