Marx and Marxism /

Marx and Marxism /

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Author / Creator:	Claeys, Gregory, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Nation Books, 2018. ©2018
Description:	vi, 376 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. Communism. Socialism. Communism. Socialism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11871475

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ISBN:	1568588976 9781568588971 9781568588964 (ebk.)
Notes:	"Originally published in 2018 by Penguin Random House UK in Great Britain"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-357) and index.
Summary:	Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He has been viewed as a philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, even a literary craftsman. But who was Marx? What informed his critiques of modern society? And how are we to understand his legacy? In "Marx and Socialism", Gregory Claeys offers a wide-ranging, accessible account of Marx's ideas and their development, from the nineteenth century through the Russian Revolution to the present. Both his critique of capitalism and his vision of the future speak across the centuries to our times, even if the questions he poses are more difficult to answer than ever. -- From publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

Many Marxes
Part 1. Marx
Chapter 1. The Young Karl
Chapter 2. Marx's Conversion to Communism
Chapter 3. The 'Paris Manuscripts', Alienation and Humanism
Chapter 4. The German Ideology, History and Production
Chapter 5. Socialism, the Revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto
Chapter 6. Exile, 1850s-1880s
Chapter 7. Political Economy
Chapter 8. The International (1864-1872) and the Paris Commune (1871)
Chapter 9. Marx's Mature System
Chapter 10. The Problem of Engels
Chapter 11. Utopia
Chapter 12. Concluding Marx
Part 2. Marxism
Introduction: Conversion
Chapter 1. Marxism and Social Democracy, 1883-1918: The Revisionist Debate
Chapter 2. Lenin and the Russian Revolution: 'Bread, Peace, Land'
Chapter 3. Bolshevik Leaders: Bukharin, Trotsky, Stalin
Chapter 4. After Stalin, 1953-1968
Chapter 5. Western European Marxism, 1920-1968, and Beyond
Chapter 6. Other Marxisms
Marxism for the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index