The book "Decline of the A Marxist view of the monetary crisis" is an interesting economic text worth studying in light of recent events and financial times.
Ernest Ezra Mandel was a German born Belgian-Jewish Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and he became a member of the Fourth International during his youth in Antwerp. Mandel is considered to be populariser of marxism.