Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues) - Softcover

Nimtz Jr., August H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791444902 ISBN 13: 9780791444900

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Presents the first major study of Marx and Engels in two decades and the only study since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recognized crisis of global capitalism.

According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presenting the first major study of the two thinkers in the past twenty years and the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials and their attitudes and policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women's equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political and party organizing, and the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant and underdeveloped country like late-nineteenth-century Russia.

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About the Author

August H. Nimtz, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Islam and Politics in East Africa: The Sufi Order in Tanzania.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791444902
• ISBN 13: 9780791444900
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392