Old Gods, New Enigmas
Marx's Lost Theory

Like all of Mike Davis' books, this is an intellectual tour de force and the culmination of a lifetime of erudition. It addresses three distinct topics with chapters of wildly varying length: an extremely long survey synthesizing working class history for some 150 pages, then a brief excursus about......more

Just finished this book. Some of the best and most elegantly substantive writing I can recall reading in some time. Goes deeper and in more detail into the kind of historical analyses I’d read in David Harvey and Murray Bookchin, and in its proscription for the present essentially echoes and affirms......more

The first half is excellent, bring forward some of the best and lesser-known views of Marx, plus showing us what was going on at the time, rival thinkers and allies. The last half I found disappointing, ie, the detour ito colonizing Mars held by the turn of the century writers, and other diversions.......more

Too lazy to write a review. Don't read it if you don't want the author's opinion on marxism and Marx himself. The guy misunderstood many of basic marxism's outspoken theories.......more

This covers so much ground so well, with simple and exact language that puts together essential questions, challenges, histories, and realities of marxism and socialism. The author puts into words things ive thought in bits and never quite been able fully conceptualize, the perfect sorta book!......more