Who hosts ghosts? All of us, I would think. In a remarkable and original intertextual study, Martin Harries brings Shakespeare and modern economic analysis under his purview to argue that the hunter is forever haunted by the hunted and that any attempt to disavow the supernatural will inevitably also welcome it to the party. Highly recommended.

I found this book almost by accident--which is the way I suppose others might find it, although people should seek it out. Anyone interested in literary and social theory, in citation, in ghosts, or in just a plain good read should read this book. It is beautifully written and contains subtle interpretations of not only Shakespeare but Marx and Weber, Keynes (whom I didn't know), etc. It has a light touch, but the concept of "reenchantment" is fascinating. Really--read this book!--you will be surprised!

Oh brother. Here's some unimaginative work. There's nothing here a person with a Beatles CD, a book of Dylan Thomas' poetry, and an intro to macroeconomics textbook couldn't figure out on their own. If you want to know how to read Das Capital politically, then read Das Capital and think about the original text. You do not need someone else to interpret it for you. If the author would like to construct a modern interpretation of the capitalist system, then perhaps he should construct his own ideas, rather than reappropriating Marx's genius. A politcal reading of Capital would make an interesting book someday. This one isn't it, and I don't think the author understands Capital outside of an economic perspective.

Now that the Soviet Union is gone, should Marx exit too? Before you dig that grave, check out working conditions world wide, from underage Asian sweatshops to desperate whitecollar temps to idled American steel workers. The Soviet Union may be gone, but by all evidence the class struggle of epic lore continues.

Obituaries to the contrary, Cleaver maintains Marxism is still very much alive, and most importantly, able to furnish strategies for defeating the reign of wage slavery. But first we have to stop reading Capital as though it's just economics. That has only brought us tyrannical communist parties, feckless parliamentary reformers, and ivory tower Kultur critics. The book's first half traces this misdirected path over the past century. The second half walks us through Capital's Chapter One with different spectacles on-- a political reading. This fresh reading, Cleaver believes, reveals a political dimension long hidden by the old economist prism, capable of turning Capital's overlooked human potential into effective worker strategizing against wage slavery.

How much of this is on target. Well, I wish Cleaver had updated this second edition from the 1970's to the 90's, because the 70's were a very different landscape from now. Capital has since morphed and gone on a rampage, replacing its crisis of the 70's with a worker's crisis of the new millenium. Too bad Cleaver's no help to analyzing recent developments despite many nuggets along the way. Nonetheless, there remains the intellectual side. Cleaver certainly wants to bring back the human element, which is well and good given the doubts cast upon structuralism and its exclusion of the subjective. But are working people the only uncontrollable card in the capitalist deck, as Cleaver asserts. What with lotteries, tv, and wall to wall news management, I begin to wonder. Still there's the book's main point. What about a political reading, new spectacles, and Capital-led strategizing. Aside from a few angles on use-value and exchange-value, and a really sparkling section on money and value, I'm not sure how much actual help a political reading is. But then I've always been a little myopic, so maybe he's owed the benefit. Three things I do know. As long as there is capital, there will be hungry workers, class struggle, and Karl Marx; and also that-- despite the superficial dismissal by reviewer Allen-- Cleaver's work remains an important contribution to the CLR James school of activism, and should be judged on its own merits.

Cleaver restores the communist tradition looking back to Capital to understand class struggle, and NOT the vanguard party, as the motivator of communism. Cleaver re-examines Capital with an understanding that is popularly overlooked by the Soviet fetishists: the composition of labor and capital. Cleaver sews in his understand of the often willfully ignored communist left from Rosa Luxemburg, to CLR James, to even the Italian Autonomia Operaia.

His understand of Capital is only the beginning though. To really get a grip on where he's coming from I suggest also checking out Werner Bonefeld's Revolutionary Writing, a compilation which Cleaver is also in. Cleaver's interpretation of Capital is most that of the composition of the working class and does not fully extend (at least not directly) to that of the social factory, social labor, contemporary alienation, the refusal of work, and many of the other theories of autonomist Marxists.

The communist left have an elaborate history that most in the mainstream, both capitalist and vanguard communist, would like to ignore for the benefit of a dualistic thinking. This is possibly the best summation of Autonomist communism available.

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The title of this book contains "NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)." However, there are no definitions about NLP in this book at all. The only explanation about NLP is: "There's not much theory to digest, because NLP is all about what "works." That's it.

I got just one idea about pre-shot routine from this book. Each chapter contains a silly Q & A section. I'd appreciate it more if they (authors) published this 208 page book as thin as 50 pages.

Dr Alder, a leading psychologist and business guru, and Karl Morris a PGA professional have condensed some of the best of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to achieve astounding improvements in golf scores at all levels. Ian Woosnam wrote in the foreword: "What I have learnt form Harry's books on NLP and from several discussions with Harry since has reminded me of the techniques, the thought process and the state of mind that I enjoyed in my best years and which I feel I am rediscovering now " . "The time I have spent with Harry and Karl has opened my eyes to the importance of the right mental approach . . .I GUARANTEE THAT READING MASTERSTROKE WILL OPEN YOUR EYES, NOT ONLY TO THE TECHNIQUES YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF USING TO IMPROVE YOUR GAME, BUT ALSO TO THE ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE OF THE CORRECT MENTAL ATTITUDE". After being in the doldrums for several years after winning the US Masters and other majors Woosnam shot to No 2 in Europe in the immediate season after meeting Dr Alder and learning some of his mind techniques. Ian and Dr Alder were featured in the Daily Mail at the time. Experienced golfers typically halve their handicap as they start to control any kind of pressure and not be conscious (and critical)of what they are doing physically while actually doing it. Woosnam says "I recommend you read Masterstroke. NLP helped my game. It will help yours too". I say, skip the Biryani.

This is dynamite. Dr Alder, a leading psychologist and Karl Morris a PGA professional have condensed some of the best of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to achieve astounding improvements in golf scores at all levels. Ian Woosnam wrote the foreword. After being in the doldrums for several years after winning the US Masters Woosnam won his first two events and quickly rose to No 2 earning in Europe in the immediate season after meeting Dr Alder and learning some of his mind tefchniques. Ian and Dr Alder were featured in the Daily Mail at the time. Experienced golfers typically halve their handicap as they start to control any kind of pressure and not be consciuous (and critical)of what they are doing physically while actually doing it. The techniques are just as effective in business and other sports. Sell your shirt for this one.