Making Sense of Marx
Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-05-09
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780521297059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical examination of the social theories of Karl Marx.
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Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-05-09
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780521297059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical examination of the social theories of Karl Marx.
Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-07-25
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521338318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought that stresses the relevance and importance of many of the philosopher's theories. It can be considered a standard basic reference work for the study of Marx in conjunction with the author's companion selection of Marx's writings, Karl Marx: A Reader.
Author: Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-01-11
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1493082760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through conflict of the means for realizing complete human freedom. But freedom for Marx meant freedom not only from capitalist economic exploitation but also from all political restraints. Continuing her historical analysis, Dunayevskaya reveals how completely Marx's original conception of freedom was perverted through its adaptations by Stalin in Russia and Mao in China, and the subsequent erection of totalitarian states. The exploitation of the masses persisted under these regimes in the form of a new "state capitalism." Yet despite the profound derailment of Marxist political philosophy in the twentieth century, Dunayevskaya points to developments such as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and the Civil Rights struggles in the United States as signs that the indomitable quest for freedom on the part of the downtrodden cannot be forever repressed. The Hegelian dialectic of events propelled by the spirit of the masses thus moves on inexorably with the hope for the future achievement of political, economic, and social freedom and equality for all.
Author: Geoff Boucher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1317547462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No social theory or political philosophy today can be taken seriously unless it enters a dialogue, not just with the legacy of Marx, but also with the innovations and questions that spring from the movement that his work sparked, Marxism. Marx provided a revolutionary set of ideas about freedom, politics and society. As social and political conditions changed and new intellectual challenges to Marx's social philosophy arose, the Marxist theorists sought to update his social theory, rectify the sociological positions of historical materialism and respond to philosophical challenges with a Marxist reply. This book provides an accessible introduction to Marxism by explaining each of the key concepts of Marxist politics and social theory. The book is organized into three parts, which explore the successive waves of change within Marxist theory and places these in historical context, while the whole provides a clear and comprehensive account of Marxism as an intellectual system.
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521338325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of Karl Marx's most important writings are contained in this volume. It was designed as a companion to Elster's "An introduction to Karl Marx" but may be used alone.
Author: Shlomo Avineri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521096195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation of Mishnato ha-òhevratit òveha-medinit shel òKarl Marks.
Author: G. A. Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0691213003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.
Author: Haroon Rashid
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2003-08-28
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0191622311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book explains why, for all his shortcomings, his critique of modern society remains forcefully relevant even in the twenty-first century.' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx In recent years we could be forgiven for assuming that Marx has nothing left to say to us. Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seemed, all reason to take Marx seriously. The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance: it was taken to be the fall of Marx as well as of Marxist politics and economics. This timely book argues that we can detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of future society, and that he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. It also shows that the value of the 'great thinkers' does not depend on their views being true, but on other features such as their originality, insight, and systematic vision. On this account too Marx still richly deserves to be read.
Author: Jonathan Sperber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-03-11
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 0871404672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major biography fundamentally reshapes our understanding of a towering historical figure.