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    <body><![CDATA[Modes of Production, alienated labor, surplus value... I loved reading this book. It really demonstrated the intelligence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. I would go on to say that I don't agree with every single thing in the book... but I feel that has already been overstated about the man and hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70032507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give up.  I tried, though.  I really did.  I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of where Marx and Engels were coming from in their formation of Marxist philosophy.  Unfortunately, this book reads like a punishment.  These guys were clearly intelligent but, man where they not so good wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10115386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good to know what the opposition thinks.  Can't agree with the idea of individual agency being cast aside.  Also the idea that all of history is class struggle is too simplistic for me.  People are occasionally motivated by things other than money.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marx is still incredibly insightful today about how society and capitalism work. A must-read. I don't think you can get a better big-picture story - overall - from anyone else. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never made it through every word of this book. But I have immersed myself in it three time thus far. I'm sure I'll dive in again sometime in the future. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am about halfway through this book...it is actually very, very interesting...some good observations about life and capitalism and some very bad solutions :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite having been familiar with Marxism for a long time now, I realize, as with every great thinker, that one must always dig into the primary texts.  This is a great reader with a broad sampling of the early and later Marx, both of whom must be taken seriously, even if it may seem at times diffic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12151246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I've not read it cover to cover, but I have read and re-read many parts. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection of Marx's early writing.  Should be on everyone's bookshelf.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition by Robert C. Tucker (1978)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's packed and the editor gives a bit of historical context for each of the selections, many of which constitute the complete text of the work from which they're taken.  It includes a big chunk of Capital, vol. 1, for example.  You also get the German Ideology and the Economic and Philosophical Man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35345503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of people who either didn't read Marx or didn't read him closely enough assume they have nothing to gain from him if they aren't Marxists.  His ideas, fittingly enough, were dialectally informed by and informed the thinking of non-Marxist thinkers about the economy.  Also very interesting insi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2742259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I studied economics some in college way back when.  It's been a long time though.  Would like to give this a read.  It looks like it's a &quot;best of&quot; and like it's multidisciplinary, w/ Engels' focus on the historical.  I'm finding it's always good to give long-ago studied subjects a new look...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4417441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top notch collection of various extracts and works by Marx and Engels. Easy to read (well compared to a lot of other texts by them), well ordered, with useful commentry by the editor. <br/><br/>A great starting place for looking into Marx's thought, and remember just because you read Marx, it wont...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1412281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great anthology of their works and gives you the right excerpts you need to read from &quot;Das Capital&quot; (I mean, who wants to read the whole tome!).  I had to read for Moral Foundations of Politics, also a great class if you are at all interested in political philosophy.]]></body>
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