Old Gods New Enigmas is the highly anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of
Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working factory jobs and sitting behind the
wheel of an eighteen-wheeler before his profile as one of the world's leading urbanists emerged
with the publication of his sober if dystopian survey of Los Angeles City of Quartz. Since
then he's developed a reputation not only for his caustic analysis of ecological catastrophe
and colonial history but as a stylist without peer.Old Gods New Enigmas is Davis's
book-length engagement with Karl Marx marking the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth and
exploring Davis's thinking on history labour capitalism and revolution--themes ever present
from the earliest work of this leading radical thinker. This is his first book on Marxism
itself.
