Reflections on Marxism
Author: Pieter Du Toit
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 300
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Author: Pieter Du Toit
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric J. Hobsbawm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0300178255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and our current historical situation of free-market extremes suggests that reading Marx may be more important now than ever. Hobsbawm begins with a consideration of how we should think about Marxism in the post-communist era, observing that the features we most associate with Soviet and related regimes--command economies, intrusive bureaucratic structures, and an economic and political condition of permanent was--are neither derived from Marx's ideas nor unique to socialist states. Further chapters discuss pre-Marxian socialists and Marx's radical break with them, Marx's political milieu, and the influence of his writings on the anti-fascist decades, the Cold War, and the post--Cold War period. Sweeping, provocative, and full of brilliant insights, How to Change the World challenges us to reconsider Marx and reassess his significance in the history of ideas."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9004457356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0300176163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA penetrating reassessment of Marxist thought and its relevance today, by a world-renowned historian of Marxism
Author: Paul Blackledge
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1847791344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘End of History’, anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply ‘another world is possible’. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as being the naive empiricism of traditional historians and the relativism of the postmodernists. He moves on to outline Marx and Engels analyses of concrete historical processes and their critiques of the alternative historiographic methodologies of their contemporaries. He then discusses neglected historical works produced by Marxists in the half-century or so after Marx and Engels’ deaths. Two central chapters survey recent Marxist debates on, first, the nature of modes of productions, including slave, feudal and tributary systems, and the revolutionary transitions between them; and, second, the methodological debate over the issue of structure and agency in the movement of history. Finally, he shows the political relevance of these debates through a concluding survey of competing Marxist attempts to periodise the present, postmodern, conjuncture. This book should be read by historians, students of cultural, social and political theory and anti-capitalist activists.
Author: Achin Chakraborty
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 981329468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx’s Capital in the context of the East. It critically reassesses some of the familiar concepts in Capital and teases out issues that are at its periphery. In various essays, it explores this borderland to promote new concepts and modes of analysing Marx’s treatise in the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it represents an advance in Marxian theory and politics. Examining Marx’s Capital from the perspective and location of the East, the book focuses on many issues that are at the ‘borders’ of Capital, which is concerned principally on unpacking developed capitalism. New concepts are introduced and set in relation to those championed by Marx in order to advance our understanding of economy, capitalism, development and politics. In this regard, the book offers a reading of Capital that is distinct from conventional reflections on it in the Western world. The scope is vast, covering much of the territory in Marx's Capital, as well as addressing a few new issues connected to Capital. The content is divided into the following sections: Reception of Capital in the East; Value, Commodity, Surplus Value and Capitalism; Population and Rent in Capital; and Issues Beyond Capital.
Author: Peter Hudis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9004229868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation. Instead of focusing on the present with only a passing reference to the future, Marx's emphasis on capitalism's tendency towards dissolution is rooted in a specific conception of what should replace it. In critically re-examining that conception, this book addresses the quest for an alternative to capitalism that has taken on increased importance today.
Author: Nicholas Lash
Publisher: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. U. Patel
Publisher: New Delhi : S. Chand
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolemical writings against the socioeconomic theories of Karl Marx, 1818-1883.
Author: Georges Sorel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2004-12-07
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0486437078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this controversial text, Sorel, a noted revolutionary, voices his belief in class warfare as a means of effecting lasting social change. His searching inquiry extends to the functions of violence, the sources of political power, the weapons of revolution, and the role of myths in converting and motivating people.