Download or read book Karl Marx written by Gareth Stedman Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have—in ways inconceivable to Marx—an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.