Travels with Marx: Destinations, Reflections, and Encounters

By Marcello Musto

Whether you're an expert on the subject or eager to learn more about the modern world's most influential political philosopher, you'll be surprised and fascinated by Musto's Travels with Marx.

After being expelled by the governments of Germany, France, and Belgium, in 1849 Karl Marx was forced to move to London, where he lived in exile for the rest of his life as a stateless political refugee. After spending a few desperately poor years in Britain, in the mid-1870s Marx started traveling again. The reasons for his visits abroad varied: family matters; delivering the manuscript of Das Kapital to his editor; political meetings; and visits to various spas in an effort to cure his many maladies.

This book tells the stories of those travels, peregrinations, encounters, conversations, and reflections and by bringing readers closer to the man who was Karl Marx invites them also to revisit his philosophical ideas. The portrait of the great philosopher that emerges is very different from the granitic, sphinxlike image memorialized in public squares during the 20th century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609456017
• ISBN13: 9781609456016
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Europa Compass
• Length: 144 Pages