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Author : Herbert Marcuse
Release : 1985
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 799/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soviet Marxism by : Herbert Marcuse
Download or read book Soviet Marxism written by Herbert Marcuse. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin
Author : Marcel Van Der Linden
Release : 2007
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Western Marxism and the Soviet Union by : Marcel Van Der Linden
Download or read book Western Marxism and the Soviet Union written by Marcel Van Der Linden. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book presents the first comprehensive appraisal of the debates on this problem, which was so central to twentieth-century Marxism.
Author : Stephen E. Hanson
Release : 2000-11-09
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time and Revolution by : Stephen E. Hanson
Download or read book Time and Revolution written by Stephen E. Hanson. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. According to Hanson, westerners tend to envision time as both rational and inexorable. In a system in which 'time is money,' the clock dominates workers. Marx, however, believed that communist workers would be freed of the artificial distinction between leisure time and work time. As a result, they would be able to surpass capitalist production levels and ultimately control time itself. Hanson reveals the distinctive imprint of this philosophy on the formation and development of Soviet institutions, arguing that the breakdown of Gorbachev's perestroika and the resulting collapse of the Soviet Union demonstrate the failure of the idea.
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Release : 2013-11-28
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dialectics of the Ideal by :
Download or read book Dialectics of the Ideal written by . This book was released on 2013-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of ‘creative’ Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academe and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory in the West. With his ‘activity approach’, E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist Marxist theory of the subject, which should be of interest to contemporary theorists who seek to avoid economic and cultural reductionism as well as the malaise of postmodern relativism. This volume features Levant’s translation of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author’s tragic suicide in 1979. Contributors include: Evald Ilyenkov, Tarja Knuuttila, Alex Levant, Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen, Paula Rauhala, and Birger Siebert.
Author : Steve Paxton
Release : 2021-01-29
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 428/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unlearning Marx by : Steve Paxton
Download or read book Unlearning Marx written by Steve Paxton. This book was released on 2021-01-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theories of Karl Marx and the practical existence of the Soviet Union are inseparable in the public imagination, but for all the wrong reasons. This book provides detailed analyses of both Marx’s theory of history and the course of Russian and Soviet development and delivers a new and insightful approach to the relationship between the two. Most analyses of the Soviet Union, from any perspective, focus on trying to explain the failure to establish socialism, giving too much weight to the political pronouncements of the regime. But, for Marx, this approach to historical explanation is back-to-front, it's the political tail wagging the economic dog. When we move our focus from the stated aims of building socialism, and look at what actually happened in Russia from emancipation in the 1860s, through the Soviet era to the 1990s, we can clearly see the patterns which Marx identified as the essential features of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. As such, the Soviet experiment forms an important part of Russia’s transition from feudalism to capitalism and provides an excellent example of the underlying forces at play in the course of historical development. Unlearning Marx will surprise Marx’s admirers and his detractors alike, and not only shed new light on Marxism's relationship with the Soviet Union, but on his ongoing relationship with our world.
