Marxism and Freedom From 1776 until Today

Name: Marxism and Freedom From 1776 until Today
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ISBN: 9781573928199

ISBN-10: 1573928194

ISBN-13: 9781573928199

Edition: 2000

Authors: Raya Dunayevskaya

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In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.430



Foreword



Preface



Introduction to Morningside Edition - Dialectics of Revolution: American Roots and Marx's World Humanist Concepts


Preface to 1982 Edition


Introduction to second edition


Introduction to first edition



From Practice to Theory: 1776 to 1848



The Age of Revolutions: Industrial, Social-Political, Intellectual



Classical Political Economy, the Revolts of the Workers, and the Utopian Socialists



A New Humanism: Marx's early economic-philosophic writings



Worker and Intellectual at a Turning Point in History: 1848 to 1861



Worker, Intellectual, and the State



Marxism: The Unity of Theory and Practice



The Impact of the Civil War in the United States on the Structure of CAPITAL



The Paris Commune Illuminates and Deepens the Content of CAPITAL



The Humanism and Dialectic of CAPITAL, Volume I, 1867 to 1883



The Logic and Scope of CAPITAL, Volumes II and III



The Second International, 1889 to 1914



World War I and the Great Divide in Marxism



The Collapse of the Second International and the Break in Lenin's Thought



Forms of Organization: The Relationship of the Spontaneous Self-Organization of the Proletariat to the "Vanguard Party"



What Happens After



The Problem of Our Age: State Capitalism vs. Freedom



Russian State Capitalism vs. Worker's Revolt



Stalin



The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism



Automation and the New Humanism



The Challenge of Mao Tse-Tung


In Place of a Conclusion: Two Kinds of Objectivity



Cultural Revolution or Maoist Reaction?


Notes


Bibliography


Index