How long does it take to read Marx?
A Very Short Introduction
Marx by Peter Singer takes about 1 hour 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1980. 82 pages, about 22,550 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Peter Singer has succeeded in identifying the central vision that unifies Marx's thought. He thus makes it possible, in remarkably few pages, for us to grasp Marx's views as a whole, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy."--Jacket.
Subjects: Communists, Communism, Marxist Philosophy, Marxian economics, Biography, History
