How to change the world:reflections on Marx and Marxism
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Yale University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New Haven, Conn. |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 470 p.: ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780300176162 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0300176163 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | B0 |
CLC: | B0-0 |
Call Number: | B0-0/H684 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-455) and index. Marx and Engels. Marx today -- Marx, Engels and pre-Marxian Socialism -- Marx, Engels and politics -- On Engels' 'the condition of the working class in England -- On the 'Communist Manifesto' -- Discovering the 'Grundrisse' -- Marx on pre-Capitalist formations -- The fortunes of Marx's and Engels' writings -- Marxism. Dr Marx and the Victorian critics -- The influence of Marxism 1880-1914 -- In the era of anti-fascism 1929-45 -- Gramsci -- The reception of Gramsci -- The influnence of Marxism 1945-83 -- Marxism in recession 1983-2000 -- Marx and labour: the long century. "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 s |