This collection addresses fundamental themes in Marx’s social and political thought. It covers key controversies in the analysis of Marx’s overall intellectual development, the influence of Hegel, the Marx-Engels relationship, the validity of historical materialism, the significance of class and class struggle, the state and political parties, and reform and revolution. It also addresses Marx’s work as historian, anthropologist, student of time and space, social psychologist and social interactionist, and literary scholar. It also includes: debates regarding Marx’s views on technological determinism; national identity; nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; cities and citizenship; welfare and human rights; science and ideology; patriarchy and the family; gender and sexual orientations; culture and religion; alienation and fetishism; and justice in capitalism and communism.