Marx for Beginners

“What?! Try to summarize Marx? That’s not only a sacrilege (As most “Academic” Marxists will say), But a complete waste of time-Because Comrade Karl is supposed to be completely beyond the range of simple minds.

Maybe so, maybe not. But I’ve written this book anyway on the principle that The Worst Kind Of Battle Is The One Not Confronted.

Another reason for trying to take on Charlie was my wish to understand him-An Ambition which I haven’t satisfied.”

Well…this is hw this book starts…An awesome book written by Rius.
Attempts to simplify and summarise the writings of political philosopher Karl Marx have been attempted before. This one however, is the only one we've seen to have a go at doing it in the format of a comic.

The book can be roughly split into three parts. The first is a biography of Marx, dwelling explicitly on the poverty of his background and how often he struggled to supply his family with even the basics of survival. Part two is a whirlwind history of philosophy to help position Marx's thinking in the context of evolving thought. And last up is an equally whirlwind tour round Marx's many works, ending up with a reprint of many passages from the Communist Manfesto.

Rius says-“ Marx himself hasn’t made my job any easier by forgetting to provide a summary of his works. I got even less help from all those scholarly volumes which pretend to clarify marx, but end up being more difficult than Charlie himself.”…:):)…An incredible way to describe the difficulty of putting things together and writing a book on Charlie Marx.

Perhaps explaining the works of Marx in a comic strip is simply too complicated a project, but this is something worth an effort.

Engels To His Grandfather. December 20 1833

Marx to His Father. August 10-16 1835

Marx to His Father. November 10 1837