Requiem for Marx
Author: Yuri N. Maltsev
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1610163494
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Author: Yuri N. Maltsev
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1610163494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yuri N. Maltsev
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781610161169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Edward Manuel
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 255
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank E. Manuel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674763272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many communist regimes, we are left with the mystery of Karl Marx the man, the complexities of a life that has profoundly affected millions. A Requiem for Karl Marx is Frank Manuel's searching meditation on that life, a learned and elegantly written engagement with the man and his work. Manuel gives us a psychological portrait rendered with sympathy and critical detachment, a probing look at the connections between the private drama of Marx's life and his revolutionary ideas. Manuel pursues these connections from Marx's adolescence and education in Trier through his university studies, marriage to a German baroness, and early affiliation with French and German radical groups. Here we see Marx in moments of youthful rapture, in periods of despair, in maneuvers of blatant hypocrisy, in outbursts of self-mockery. We follow his involuted response to his status as a converted Jew, observe the psychic toll of debilitating bouts of illness, and witness the shattering effects of his aggressive, often brutal conduct toward friend and foe alike. Manuel analyzes in intricate detail the central role of Marx's enduring relationship with Friedrich Engels, which appears to transcend the bounds of friendship, and his changing behavior toward his wife, Jenny, the neurotic and tragic figure who shared his dismal London exile. What becomes clear in this narrative is the link between Marx's personal life and his ideas about class struggle, revolutionary strategy, and utopia--as well as the impact of his personal vision and political tactics on the movements that followed him, down to our day.
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charity Scribner
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780262693271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first survey of the recent requiems for communism by European writers and artists.
Author: William Ophuls
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0429977301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis long-promised sequel to Ophuls’s influential and controversial classic Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity is an equally provocative critique of the liberal philosophy of government. Ophuls contends that the modern political paradigm—that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment—is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable. Our attempt to live individualistically, hedonistically, and rationally has failed utterly, causing a comprehensive crisis that is at once political, military, economic, ecological, ethical, psychological, and spiritual. Liberal politics has abandoned virtue, rejected community, and flouted nature, thereby becoming the author of its own demise. By exposing the intrinsically contradictory and self-destructive character of Hobbesian political systems, Ophuls subverts our conventional wisdom at every turn. Indeed, his impassioned text reads more like a Greek tragedy than a conventional political argument. He critiques feminism, multiculturalism, the welfare state, and a host of other “liberal” shibboleths—but Ophuls is not yet another neoconservative. The aim of his thesis is far more radical and progressive, offering a political vision that entirely transcends the categories of liberal thought. His is a Thoreauvian vision of a “politics of consciousness” rooted in ecology as the moral and intellectual basis for governance in the twenty-first century. Ophuls holds that a polity based on a renewed erotic connection with nature offers a genuine solution to this crisis of contemporary civilization and that only within such a polity will it be possible to fulfill the worthy liberal goal of individual self-development. Ophuls’s work will interest and challenge a wide spectrum of readers, though it will not necessarily be well liked or easily accepted. No one will put down this book with his or her settled convictions about American culture intact, nor will readers ever again take modern civilization and its survival for granted.
Author: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1610164687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leslie DERFLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0674034228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Lafargue, the disciple and son-in-law of Karl Marx, helped to found the first French Marxist party in 1882. Over the next three decades, he served as the chief theoretician and propagandist for Marxism in France. During these years - which ended with the dramatic suicides of Lafargue and his wife - French socialism, and the Marxist party within it, became a significant political force. Leslie Derfler explores Lafargue's political strategies, specifically his break with party co-founder Jules Guesde in the Boulanger and Dreyfus episodes and over the question of socialist syndicalist relations. Derfler shows Lafargue's importance as both political activist and theorist. He describes Lafargue's role in the formulation of such strategies as the promotion of a Second Workingmen's International, the pursuit of reform within the framework of the existent state but opposition to any socialist participation in nonsocialist governments, and the subordination of trade unionism to political action. He emphasizes Lafargue's pioneering efforts to apply Marxist methods of analysis to questions of anthropology, aesthetics, and literary criticism.
Author: Marcello Musto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1107117925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international set of eminent scholars examine the contemporary relevance and continuing contribution of Marx's work. This indispensable volume presents Marx's theories in a new light, both for specialists who might think they already know everything about Marx and for a new generation of readers who are approaching his work for the first time.