This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through
close philosophical analysis of his publications manuscripts and letters - especially those
relevant to politics morality and the future. This philosophical study stands out because of
its two principal features. First it reviews and develops ideas about the future though often
only briefly discussed by Marx and his commentators drawn from Marx's work. Second it focuses
on collective matters that are critical for Marx's ideas but rarely investigated and still
problematic.Part One introduces Marx with a discussion of emancipation and freedom in
community. It then discusses the importance of retrieval and the methodology for promoting it.
Part Two is about misunderstandings of Marx's ideas about productive development division of
labour and organisations. Part Three discusses nations morality and democracy all of which
Marx supported. Part Four takes up Marx's significant but misunderstood ideas about the
future and his relation to the anarchists.
