Morgan A. Brown

In the Preface to his new book, Why Marx Was Right  University of Lancaster professor of literature and literary critic Terry Eagleton sums up his latest approach to Marxian apologetics in a bout of wishful thinking: “What if all the most familiar objections to Marx’s work are mistaken?”

Looking back on this fairytale version of Ness's exploits with a little more wisdom and experience, one can easily see that nothing could be further from the truth.