Introduction

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Notes

1. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx, London: Routledge, 1994, 13.

2. John Cassidy, “The Return of Karl Marx,” The New Yorker, October 20/27 1997, 248–59.

3. Le Nouvel Observateur, October/November 2003.

4. Der Spiegel, 22 August 2005.

5. One of the most significant examples of this new interest in Marx's writings is the continuation of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²), the historico-critical edition of his complete works, which resumed in 1998 after the interruption that followed the collapse of the socialist countries. See Marcello Musto, “The rediscovery of Karl Marx,” International Review of Social History, 2007, no. 52/3, 477–98.

6. See Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism, London: Cambridge University Press, 1995.