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Originally published in 1971, Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silver is a key work by one of

the most important Latin American Marxists of the 20th century.

Silver argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work

results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression.

We cannot understand Marx if we treat him as a scientist, a philosopher or a literary writer

when he was in fact all three at once.

This new edition, published by Verso Books this month,

marks the first appearance of one of Silver's works in English,

and features an introduction by Alberto Toscano.

Marx's literary style by Ludovico Silver is out now from Verso Books,

and part of their January Verso Book Club reading.

You are now listening to Macrodose.

Hello and welcome to Macrodose, a podcast hosted by me, James Medway, that brings you your

weekly fix of everything economics

and a quick, 15-minute roundup. Each Wednesday morning, we bring you the key stories making the

news and the analysis you need to make sense of them. In this week's episode, for a first story,

we'll be looking at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos and asking whether

it's really everything it's cracked up to be.

Secondly, we'll take a look at the issues surrounding the US government debt ceiling and why it's

such an unnecessary headache for all of us. For a third story, there's a new report out from the

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