Marxism: For and Against
Title | Marxism: For and Against PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Heilbroner |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1980-03-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0393242625 |
"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist interpretation of history, the socio-analysis of capitalism and the commitment to socialism." —Raymond Williams, Cambridge University In the lucid style and engaging manner that have become his trademark, Robert L. Heilbroner explains and explores the central elements of Marxist thought: the meaning of a "dialectical" philosophy, the usefulness and problems of a " materialist" interpretation" of history, the power of Marx's "socioanalytic" penetration of capitalism, and the hopes and disconcerting problems involved in a commitment to socialism. Scholarly without being academic, searching without assuming a prior knowledge of the subject, Dr. Heilbroner enables us to appreciate the greatness of Mark while avoiding an uncritical stance toward his work.
Marx Against Marxism
Title | Marx Against Marxism PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Lowenstein |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135025495 |
This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx’s teaching on his followers. He uses Marx to speak against the rigid dogmatism inherent in much of Marxism and concentrates on the interpretations of Marx’s work by Max Weber.
The War Against Marxism
Title | The War Against Marxism PDF eBook |
Author | Tony McKenna |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2021-05-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 135020143X |
Marxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its thought has often been distorted and overridden by various Stalinist dictatorships which claimed to be acting in its name. A similar undermining of freedom of thought has been accomplished at an intellectual level; various schools have transformed Marxist thought in line with some of the most fashionable but gentrified forms of contemporary philosophy, shifting the focus from the democratic power of the masses and their ability to challenge the capitalist order to concentrate on superstar thinkers and elite theories. The War Against Marxism traces the war against Marxism which, paradoxically, has been conducted in the name of Marxism itself. As such it provides a fiery philosophical and polemical indictment of so-called 'Marxists' such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, Mouffe, Laclau and Zizek and asks what can be done to stem this counterrevolution.
Against Fragmentation
Title | Against Fragmentation PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin Ward Gouldner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Drama |
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A sequel to The Two Marxisms, this book applies resources Gouldner developed over the last decade and also draws on his earlier accomplishments in an effort to understand the sources of both Marxist rationality and irrationality.
Marxism and Native Americans
Title | Marxism and Native Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Ward Churchill |
Publisher | South End Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780896081772 |
In a unique format of intellectual challenge and counter-challenge prominent Native Americans and Marxists debate the viability of Marxism and the prevalence of ethnocentric bias in politics, culture, and social theory. The authors examine the status of Western notions of "progress" and "development" in the context of the practical realities faced by American Indians in their ongoing struggle for justice and self-determination. This dialogue offers critical insights into the nature of ecological awareness and dialectics and into the possibility of constructing a social theory that can bridge cultural boundaries.
Marx Against Marxism
Title | Marx Against Marxism PDF eBook |
Author | Julius I. Löwenstein |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780415491112 |
Against the Market
Title | Against the Market PDF eBook |
Author | David McNally |
Publisher | Verso |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1993-12-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780860916062 |
In this innovative book, David McNally develops a powerful critique of market socialism, by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy. He ranges from Adam Smith’s attempt to reconcile moral philosophy with market economics to Malthus’s reformulation of Smith’s political economy which made it possible to justify poverty as a moral necessity. Smith’s economic theory was also the source of an attempt to construct a critique of capitalism derived from his conception of free and equal exchange governed by natural price. This Smithian forerunner of today’s market socialism sought to reform the market without abolishing the social relations on which it was based. McNally explores this tradition sympathetically, but exposes its fatal flaws. The book concludes with an incisive consideration of efforts by writers such as Alec Nove to construct a “feasible” model of market socialism. McNally shows these efforts are still plagued by the failure of early Smithian socialism to come to grips with the social foundations of the market, the commodification of labor-power which is the key to market regulation of the economy. The results, he argues, are neither socialist nor workable.