☆☆他们以为他们是自由的
☆☆他们是大错特错了
☆☆他们只有在选举的期间，才是自由的
☆☆一旦选举结束，他们就是奴隶
代议制民主已身陷困境，这一点越来越显而易见。如今，西方国家的投票率越来越低，政党成员越来越少，政客们越来越倾向于根据选举日期来调整策略，结果就是，西方社会患上了达维德•范雷布鲁克所称的“民主疲劳综合征”。该如何医治这一疾病呢？范雷布鲁克在本书中给出了分析和答案。

First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of modern Communism has long been considered a classic of modern scholarship and the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, and concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism as a theory and practice. In turn, Berlin presents an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the nineteenth century and depicts the social and political atmosphere in which Marx wrote.
This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Ryan which traces the place of Berlin's Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and elucidates why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains a classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure.