The Marx Reader: Manifesto of the Communist Party; Wage Labour & Capital; and Value, Price & Profit

Whenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today? Do we still have something to gain from reading the great man's thoughts about economic structures? To put this question another way - if Marx was wrong, in the end, about what communism would look like, then why do we still read his writings?

One way to answer this is by looking at the similarities between Marx's world and ours. The "Communist Manifesto" describes a world wh...