| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
ix, 355 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Legacy of Marx -- Further reading -- Part 1: German Social Democrats -- 1: Contribution of Engels -- Philosophy -- History -- Politics -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 2: Revisionist controversy -- Spread of Marxism outside Germany -- Origins of German revisionism -- Economics -- Sociology -- Politics -- Philosophy and historical materialism -- Conclusion -- Furthering reading -- Bibliography -- 3: Radicals -- Introduction -- Luxemburg: social reform or revolution -- Luxemburg: consciousness and activity -- Luxemburg: imperialism -- Split in the SPD -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 4: Austro-Marxism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Russian Marxism -- 5: Origins -- Marx, Engels and Plekhanov -- Founding of the RSDLP -- Bolshevik-Menshevik split -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 6: Trotsky -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 7: Lenin -- Party -- Revolution -- Imperialism -- State -- National question -- Philosophy -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 8: Russian Marxism in the 1920s -- War communism -- New economic policy -- Socialism in one country -- Art and philosophy -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 9: Stalinism -- Industry, agriculture and party -- Stalin as theoretician -- Trotsky's critique of Stalinism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 10: Post-Stalin communism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Part 3: European Marxism Between The Wars -- 11: Lukacs -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 12: Korsch -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 13: Council communism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 14: Gramsci -- Introduction -- Turin councils movement -- Prison notebooks -- Intellectuals -- Hegemony -- State, civil society and revolution -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Part 4: China And The Third World -- 15: Making of the Chinese revolution -- Introduction -- Mao and the peasantry -- Revolutionary strategy -- Guerrilla warfare -- Mao's philosophy -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 16: Maoism in power -- Path of economic development -- Inheritance and first measures -- First five year plan -- Great leap forward -- Class and contradiction -- Party and the masses -- Mass line and democratic centralism -- Party organization -- One hundred flowers campaign -- Cultural revolution -- Historical materialism -- Sino-Soviet dispute -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 17: Latin America -- Introduction -- Cuba -- Regis Debray -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 18: Marxism and underdevelopment -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Part 5: Contemporary Marxism In Europe And The United States -- Introduction -- 19: Frankfurt school -- School and politics -- Critical theory -- Impact of psychoanalysis and fascism -- Aesthetics -- Marcuse -- Habermas -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 20: Existentialist Marxism -- Introduction -- Sartre -- Arguments and the theorists of the "New Working Class' -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 21: Della Volpe School -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 22: Structuralism Marxism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 23: British Marxism -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 24: Marxism in the United States -- History -- Marx and Engels -- Weydemeyer and Sorge -- SLP and De Leon -- Socialism and communism -- New left -- Reasons for Marxism's lack of success -- Theory -- New left -- America history -- Economics -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Chronological table -- Marxist genealogy -- Index. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: This one-volume examination is a "complete survey that cannot be compared to any other work on the subject. |
| Subject |
Communism -- History.
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| ISBN |
0060130261: $17.50 |
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9780060130268 |
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