Reading Marx
By Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda And Agon Hamza
(Polity: £14.99)

This demanding book will confront any reader unused to the abstruse terminology of modern philosophy with an intellectual assault course.

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Recognising the present world hegemony of capitalism, doomed by its own inconsistencies but facing “no outer threats (a socialist bloc for example) … they can see everywhere a blatant regression to previous forms of domination … that for long seemed to have been invalidated by history.”