Andy Blunden is an independent scholar. His fields of research include social philosophy, psychology, Activity Theory, Marxism, Hegel and Cultural Historical Activity Theory.Andy is administrator of the Marx-Engels and Hegel Archives on marxists.org. He began publishing in 2003, and was for some time an Editor of Mind, Culture and Activity. He has published seven books through Brill and numerous journal articles.

"With exceptional honesty and modesty, Blunden shares the path that led him to this work [...] The book is written in an expressively engaging and dialogical style [...] Stylistically speaking, it is also written with a limpid clarity [...] It is hence an excellent companion for undergraduate and graduate students having a year course on all three volumes of Capital.”—Kaveh Boveiri, in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books