Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, his work continues to serve as a landmark in the field of the history of ideas and social movements simultaneously.

Marxist theory separates, but also connects, the before and after of its own formation in a dialectical way. It removes its own philosophical past and, as it is not exhausted in interpretations and not wasted in word and concept games, it contributes to the transformation of the world, and even in a communist direction.

In the pages of this volume, leading thinkers of recent times, such as Machiavelli, Spinoza, Rousseau, and Hegel, Marxist revolutionaries like Lenin, Gramsci, and Lukacs, as well as radical theorists of the 20th century, such as Marcuse and Sartre, intersect fruitfully with the Marxist philosophy of revolution and communism, shedding light from different perspectives on the struggle and the anguish of contemporary man to finally overcome the kingdom of necessity and experience that of freedom.