"Terrell Carver has done something new, surprising, and very rewarding. By concentrating on Marx the political activist, rather than Marx the grand figure of intellectual history, Carver allows us to understand the many ways in which Marx′s ideas resonate through contemporary political debates. Marx emerges as a "punchy writer, formidable thinker and economics–minded gadfly." Jonathan Wolff, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford "Full of insight and enthusiasm, Terrell Carver′s provocative new book gives us a welcome portrait of Marx as very much our contemporary – a political activist grappling with issues that still concern us, in ways we can still learn from." David Leopold, University of Oxford

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol.