Marx's dream : from capitalism to communism /

Marx's dream : from capitalism to communism /

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Author / Creator:Rockmore, Tom, 1942- author.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Description:viii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 1 has dust jacket.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11607694
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ISBN:9780226554525
022655452X
9780226554662
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view of Marx in three key ways. First, he shows that the concern with the relation of theory to practice - reflected in Marx's famous claim that philosophers only interpret the world, while the point is to change it - arose as early as Socrates, and has been central to philosophy in its best moments. Second, he seeks to free Marx from his unsolicited Marxist embrace in order to consider his theory on its own merits. And, crucially, Rockmore relies on the normal standards of philosophical debate, without the special pleading to which Marxist accounts too often resort. Marx's failures as a thinker, Rockmore shows, lie less in his diagnosis of industrial capitalism's problems than in the suggested remedies, which are often unsound. Only a philosopher of Rockmore's stature could tackle a project this substantial, and the results are remarkable: a fresh Marx, unencumbered by doctrine and full of insights that remain salient today.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. On Marx's Theory of Practice
  • On Culture and Civilization
  • Plato's Republic and Human Flourishing
  • Rousseau's Problem
  • On Property, Private Property, and Human Flourishing
  • Hegel, Recognition, and the Modern State
  • Hegel on Human Flourishing in the Modern State
  • Hegel and Economic Flourishing
  • Marx's Critique of Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right
  • Marx on Theory, Practice, and Changing the World
  • On the Marxian Subject
  • Feuerbach, Fichte, and the Marxian Subject
  • On the Marxian Alternative to Modern Political Economy
  • Marxian Political Economy as Economic Constructivism
  • Marx on Human Flourishing and Communism
  • Human Flourishing as Social Freedom
  • Part 2. Marx and Marxism on Materialism, Feuerbach, and Hegel
  • What Is Materialism?
  • Materialism in Marx's Early Writings
  • Engels's (Marxist) View of Feuerbach
  • Materialism, Idealism, andThe German Ideology
  • Marx's (Non-Marxist) View of Feuerbach
  • Marx's "Times on Feuerbach"
  • Vico, Materialism, and Constructivism in Capital
  • Materialism, Dialectic, and the Second Afterword to Capital
  • Excursus on the Reflection Theory of Knowledge
  • On Hegel's Dialectical Theory of Cognition
  • Marx on Hegelian Dialectic
  • Part 3. On the Practice of Marx's Theory, or the Transition from Capitalism to Communism
  • 1. Transition through the Revolutionary Proletariat
  • 2. Transition through Economic Crisis
  • Normal and Abnormal Economic Crises
  • Introduction to Marx on "Crisis" in Theories of Surplus Value
  • Marx Attacks Ricardo's View of Profit
  • The Mature Marxian View of Economic Crisis
  • Financial Crisis and the Marxian Model of Economic Crisis
  • Economic Crisis and Value Theory
  • Limitations to the Falling Rate of Profit
  • Croce, Okishio, Piketty, and the Falling Rate of Profit
  • Critical Remarks on the Marxian Model of the Final Economic Crisis
  • An Excursus on Main and Financial Crisis
  • 3. Transition through Politics
  • On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  • On the Practice of Proletarian Dictatorship
  • On the Withering Away of the State
  • Lenin on the Party as the Revolutionary Vanguard
  • Lenin on Democracy
  • Dictatorship over the Proletariat
  • 4. Transition through Critical Social Theory
  • Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory
  • Critical Theory, or Critical Social Theory
  • Excursus on Pollock and Critical Theory
  • Pollock, Habermas, and Critical Social Theory
  • Habermas on Historical Materialism
  • Conclusion: Marx's Dream
  • Nates
  • Index

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