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Reading Karl Marx.

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Date: 20020101
Author:Dehart, Dennis

Rainer Ganahl

London: Book Works, 2001

From a material perspective. Reading Karl Marx is a handsome book. It is simple in appearance, tasteful in design, short on text and decked out with color photographs. It is the kind of book whose seductive looks and serious title seem like a profound contradiction in terms, an ambiguous collision of rhetoric at the levels of design and meaning. Marxism, with its penchant for manifestos typeset in Courier and the use of photocopiers to involve the masses, arrives like a pink (the color of the cover) blast from the offset-printed ...

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