Karl Marx and the Future of the Human

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Cyril Smith shows that Marx developed a far richer and liberatory vision of humanity and the alternative to capital than that which has characterized his followers, and he makes a powerful argument that it is essential to return to Marxs original body of thought in order to reconstitute a viable critique of existing capitalist society.

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A novel approach that connects the effects of labour and capital to a notion of humanity from William Blakewritten with exuberance for the subject matter. * Political Studies Review *
This work represents an important addition to the growing number of works which seek to clarify the difference between Marxs critique of capitalist society and the approach adopted by traditional or orthodox Marxists. . . . The manuscript contains important insights that will contribute to the process of further clarifying the nature of Marxs relation to previous schools of thought, especially Hegels. -- Peter Hudis, Co-editor of The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx by Raya Dunayevskaya

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Cyril Smith is formerly Lecturer of Statists at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Marx at the Milennium.