In this book, Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginnings to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of current discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory. He traces the development of the concept of "alienation" in Marx, and its fate in the hands of succeeding generations, down to the present discussion in East and West Europe, summarizes the fascinating debates over the "Asiatic mode of production," and discusses labor theory of value, the problem of periodic crises, the theory of wages and the polarization of wealth and poverty, and the problem of progressive "disalienation" through the building of socialist society.

作者于1936年6月至10月对中国西北革命根据地进行了实地考察，根据考察所掌握的第一手材料完成了《西行漫记》的写作。斯诺作为一个西方新闻记者，对中国共产党和中国革命作了客观评价，并向全世界作了公正报道。全书共12篇，主要内容包括：关于红军长征的介绍；对中国共产党和红军主要领导人的采访；中国共产党的抗日政策、红军的军事策略；作者的整个采访经历和感受等。

In this collection, David Graeber revisits questions raised in his popular book, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Employing an unpretentious style to convey complex ideas, these twelve essays cover a lot of ground: the origins of capitalism, the history of European table manners, love potions and gender in rural Madagascar, the phenomenology of giant puppets at street protests, and much more. But they're linked by a clear purpose: to explore the nature of social power and the forms that resistance to it have taken—or might take in the future.
In the best anthropological tradition, Graeber uses rich ethnographic and historical detail to support and illuminate broad insights into human nature and society. In the process, he shows how scholarly concerns can be of use to radical social movements, and how the perspectives of such movements shed new light on debates within the academy.

本书共评介了西方现代十个主要哲学流派：实在论、实用主义、新实证主义、结构主义、哲学人类学、弗洛伊德主义、存在主义、人格主义、新正统派的新教和新托马斯主义，大体上反映了苏联学术界的观点，对我国读者有一定参考价值。