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Why Marx Was Right is a 2011 nonfiction polemic by Terry Eagleton, one of the best-known Marxist literary critics writing in English. The book is not a beginner’s introduction to Marx, but a defense of Marxism against a set of familiar criticisms that have made it seem obsolete, authoritarian, reductionist, or historically failed. Eagleton structures the book around ten common objections and argues that many of them rely on oversimplified readings of Marx or on selective comparisons with capitalist society. Written in a combative but accessible style, it aims to restore Marx as a serious thinker for readers interested in politics, economics, ideology, and social theory. The book belongs to the tradition of intellectual rebuttal: it is less about teaching Marx from scratch than about showing why Marx still matters in a world shaped by inequality, crisis, and recurring debates about capitalism.