An Introduction to Karl Marx

An Introduction to Karl Marx is a 1986 book about the philosopher Karl Marx by the social and political theorist Jon Elster. It is a much shorter version (about one-fourth in length) of Elster's Making Sense of Marx, published a year earlier.

An Introduction to Karl Marx

Cover of the first edition
Author	Jon Elster
Language	English
Subject	Karl Marx
Published	1986
Media type	Print (hardcover · paperback)
Pages	212
ISBN	978-0521338318

Elster also edited a companion volume of selected writings by Marx, organizing along thematic lines corresponding to the book's chapters 2–9, on the topics of Marxian methodology, alienation, Marxian economics, exploitation, historical materialism, class consciousness and class struggle, Marx's theory of politics, and the Marxist critique of ideology.

Reception

The political scientist David McLellan praised the work for its rigor and accessibility.^[1]