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Join Distinguished Professor of English Literature, Terry Eagleton, as he discusses the Second Edition of 'Why Marx Was Right'.

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on - he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humour and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.

Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Lancaster. He was formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford. He is the author of more than 45 books, spanning literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion, including the seminal Literary Theory: An Introduction which has sold over 750,000 copies.