"Believing in too many things can be bad for your health." "We can use the past to renew the present, not just to bury it." "Socialism is the culmination of democracy, not its negation." These three phrases are a tiny sample of the direct, revolutionary, and committed thinking of Terry Eagleton (Salford, 1943), one of the most influential university professors, literary critics, and essayists of the second half of the 20th century. Almost six decades after his debut with The New Left Church (Helicon, 1966) And after publishing around forty more books, the British author is no longer unpublished in Catalan thanks to Tigre de Paper, which has published Why Marx was right, translated by Lola Fígols Fornell. Published in English in 2011, the book prompted Eagleton's visit to Barcelona, ​​where he was one of the headliners at the Literal fair, held at the Fabra i Coats.