Karl Marx Loved Freedom

What does Karl Marx’s masterwork, Capital, have in common with Dante’s Inferno? And more importantly, what can the book — which was written partly in debate with the socialist movements of its time — teach us today? 

In his book Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital, political theorist William Clare Roberts argues that Marx’s arguments are not simply about the economic inner workings of the system of capitalism but about building a world free from domination — a notion that has great political power today as we attempt to think about the...