Karl Marx : The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market)

Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism?

Alan Megill begins with this question and through his examination of Marx's formative writings casts new light on Marx's relation to philosophy and reveals a hitherto largely unknown "rationalist" Marx.

In demonstrating how Marx's rationalism permeated his attempts to understand politics, economics and history generally, Megill forces the reader to rethink Marx's entire intellectual project.

This redescription of the Marxian enterprise has implications for how we think about the usability of Marx's work today.