Marx at the Millennium - Cyril Smith

In the midst of a worldwide social crisis, Marxism has apparently lost momentum and, in many quarters, has been abandoned as obsolete.
Cyril Smith reinstates Marx's work as a relevant and vital source of inspiration, arguing that the Marxist tradition has essentially ignored the fundamental ideas of the man himself. By examining the theoretical views of Lenin and Trotsky alongside those of Marx, Smith reveals a discrepancy which can be traced back to figures like Kautsky and Plekhanov - and even to Marx's contemporaries. This is a provocative and controversial book which addresses Marx's fundamental question of what it means to be human, demonstrating it to be ever more valid as we move towards the twenty-first century.