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Marxism in a Lost Century

2014-12-22 Political Science
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Release : 2014-12-22
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Book Synopsis Marxism in a Lost Century by : Gary Roth

Download or read book Marxism in a Lost Century written by Gary Roth. This book was released on 2014-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. An adolescent during the German revolutions that followed World War I, he was also a recent émigré to the United States during the 1930s Great Depression, when the unemployed groups in which he participated were among the most dynamic manifestations of social unrest. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick’s experiences with publishing, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship. Mattick found a wide audience during the 1960s because of his emphasis on the economy’s dysfunctional aspects and his advocacy of workplace councils—a popularity mirrored in the cyclical nature of the global economy.

Old Gods, New Enigmas

2018-06-26 Political Science
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Release : 2018-06-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Old Gods, New Enigmas by : Mike Davis

Download or read book Old Gods, New Enigmas written by Mike Davis. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Adventures in Marxism

1999 Philosophy
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Release : 1999
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Adventures in Marxism by : Marshall Berman

Download or read book Adventures in Marxism written by Marshall Berman. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.

The Black Book of Communism

1999 History
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Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Black Book of Communism by : Stéphane Courtois

Download or read book The Black Book of Communism written by Stéphane Courtois. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.

Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute

2019-10-14 Philosophy
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Release : 2019-10-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute by : Daniel Andrés López

Download or read book Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute written by Daniel Andrés López. This book was released on 2019-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Lukács’s philosophy of praxis, penned between 1918 and 1928, remains a revolutionary and apocryphal presence within Marxism. His History and Class Consciousness has inspired a century of rapture and reprobation, perhaps, as Gillian Rose suggested, because of its ‘invitation to hermeneutic anarchy’. In Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute, Daniel Andrés López radicalises Lukács’s famous return to Hegel by reassembling his 1920s philosophy as a conceptual-historical totality. This speculative reading defends Lukács while proposing an unprecedented, immanent critique. While Lukács’s concept of praxis approaches the shape of Hegel’s Absolute, it tragically fails to bear its weight. However, as López argues, Lukács’s failure was productive: it raises crucial political, methodological and philosophical questions for Marxism, offering to redeem a lost century.

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