Marx for Beginners - Kevin Keane

Marx for Beginners, like the piece we read on Freud, presents the basic history of a thinker in an interesting way. The book is heavily illustrated making it very quick to get through. Although this work is very creative at some points I feel as though the comical images do start to take away from the material, and begin to get repetitive as well. I began to feel as though I was reading the comic section in the newspaper. Marx was a great thinking and I don’t feel as though this piece does his theories justice. His ideas are presented in a juvenile fashion that clash with his style of thinking. Unlike Freud for Beginners, which the psychotic sense that the imagery presented reinforced that material, Marx for Beginners is far less effective.