The Invention of Marxism

by Christina Morina

Translated from German, The Invention of Marxism is a “search for the origins of Marxism” which looks at the biographies of nine 19th-century individuals, including Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg as well as lesser-known figures. By doing so, it helps shed light on how Karl Marx—a penniless German philosopher who lived in exile in London—came to be what she calls the “(unintended) godfather of one of the most destructive social experiments in human history.”