An interview on the continuing relevance of Marx, April 2015

The topics discussed in the interview : Marx and Piketty on Capital; decline of Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism etc. ideologies; the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA]; Marx and Marxisms; Marx’s study of History; Marx’s approaches to human ideas, society and the rest of nature. First published on Kafila.online

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