General Introduction To Marxism

Introduction To Marx/Marxsim by John Molyneux

Oct 13, 202000:13:42Science & Medicine

this sets out different basic views of Marx – evil founder of communism, 19th-century economist, etc – and explains the speaker’s view of him as basically a revolutionary and fighter for human freedom. It also briefly ou...

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