My grandfather Michael Evans, who has died aged 89, was a distinguished political theorist of rare moral integrity. For over three decades, he taught in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, where he became known for the quiet rigour of his thought and the moral seriousness with which he approached ideas.
His landmark book, Karl Marx (1975), published by Allen & Unwin, remains a model of scholarly insight, cementing his reputation for meticulous scholarship. The book traced Marx’s political thought through his early works and journalism, offering a nuanced, historically grounded analysis without ideological bias. Michael sought neither to canonise nor dismantle Marx but to understand him.
