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Australian Left Review

Article Title

Karl Marx Symposium

Authors

Leon Cantrell

Abstract

TO MARK the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Marx’s Capital, Australian Left Review recently organised a seminar in Sydney on various facets of Marx’s life and work. As befitted such an occasion, the tone of the papers given was largely historical: Marx as a politician, a philosopher, a man and an economist. An effort not so much to interpret Marx for the present as to show how he reacted to his own times and how his eventual position as probably the most influential thinker of the nineteenth century came about.