The Event of Literature (Terry Eagleton)

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The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton

Why Marx Was Right

Terry Eagleton

n this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic...