Since the latest crisis of capitalism broke out in 2008, Marx has been back in fashion, and sometimes it seems that his ideas have never been as topical, or as

Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live on

Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.

This major biography fundamentally reshapes our understanding of a towering historical figure.

“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must