Karl Marx's thought has returned to the limelight in recent years. After the waning of interest in the 1980s and the conspiracy of silence in the 1990s, the literature on Marx is flourishing in the wake of the international financial crisis. Another Marx reconstructs the stages of Marx's thought in the light of the textual acquisitions of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA ) project, the critical historical edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels, thus providing a more exhaustive account of the formation of Marx's conceptions than has previously been offered.

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