Dan Swain revisits Karl Marx 's conception of ethics and provides a compelling interpretation fit for the 21st century.

Dan Swain, Ph.D. (2015), Essex, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory.

Acknowledgements
Note on References
Introduction
1 Prometheus Plus Spartacus
2 From Freedom to Self-Emancipation
3 Historical Materialism and Self-Emancipation
4 Communism, Utopia and Vision
5 Exploitation, Justice and Freedom
6 Alienation, Human Nature, Human Good
7 Denouncing the Abyss
8 Self-Emancipation and Revolutionary Practice
Bibliography
Index