What is the author's tone in Marx for Beginners by Rius?

Oddly enough, given Marx's topic matter of revolution and worker exploitation, the tone of Marx for Beginners is often light hearted and fun. Rius blends a great deal of humor into his cartoons and writing. He is quick to point out the contrast of Marx trying to solve the world's economic problems when he could not solve his own, for example. The tone of the book is one of the work's strengths. As an introduction to Marx's fairly complicated and dense work, the cartoons and humor make the average reader feel connected to the material and willing to wade through the complex topics that Marx discusses.

Although the book has a tone of humor to it, the reader also finds a fairly authoritative voice within the work. Rius is clearly knowledgeable about Marx and the writing is more objective than subjective. However, it is clear from the text that Rius finds Marx's work better on the particular issues than the philosophers that came before him.