Marxism is a crisp, lucid, and commonsensical introduction to Karl Marx's own writings and to the Marxist theory. This book leads the reader through the Marxian scheme of ideas, shattering some existing interpretations of Marx which have developed through repetition rather than through scholarship. It combines readability with intellectual rigor and distills more than a quarter of a century of research and thought on the philosophical and economic doctrines of Karl Marx.