Karl Marx: Greatness and IllusionAs much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth century world, before twentieth century inventions transformed him into Communisms patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God, human capacities, empires, and political systemsand, above all, the shape of the future. In the