A More Balanced Portayal of Marx

As compared to Marx the Social Thinker and Marx the Revolutionary, Marx the Philosopher and Marx the Historian are the least represented in the English-speaking academy. References to three main texts would help to portray Marx the Philosopher more adequately. The three Marx's pieces where his philosophical genius showed itself at his best are, of course, Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte, Theses on Feuerbach and Das Kapital.

In the Anglo-American academia, Marx the Historian is usually represented by his vision of the Laws of History in a trivial chain like: "labor – the progress of production – the modernization of the means of production – more surplus – different distribution – reconsideration of the socio-productive relations – reshaping the relation of ownership – reshaping society – different ideology – different spiritual life – etc.".