MARX AGAINST MARXISM. Translated From The German By Harry Drost

Loewenstein, Julius I.

ISBN 10: 0710005628 / ISBN 13: 9780710005625

Published by London etc~. 1980. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980

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blue hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. sunfaded spine, not torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing (NAP). xiii+222p. notes. bibliography. index. world history. biography. political philosophy. economics. ~In making his two historical discoveries of the separation of the workers from the means of production, and the controlling influence of the materialist basis of production on ideas and politics, Marx was aided by the historical philosophy of Hegel. His debt to Hegel extended to drawing the unscientific conclusions of an explanation of history based on the single factor of material production and of the dialectical development that would lead in itself to the liberation of the proletariat. But Marx's economic analysis contradicted these doctrines, and he himself had begun to abandon them, renouncing unequivocally as 'futile speculation' his own dogmatic philosophical approach and adopting a truly scientific analysis of society. However what survived from his own earlier speculative phase was the doctrine of the dialectic, and although Marx had begun to extricate himself from it in stages, his followers adopted the doctrine and made it into a dogma that was to have momentous influence. Marx Against Marxism traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx's teachings on his followers, the author contending that 'only an approach starting from Marx's later work can break the magic circle of fateful dogmatism and recover the humanist and political goals and scientific content of Marx.' He thus uses Marx to speak against the rigid dogmatism inherent in much of Marxism, and concentrates on the interpretations of Marx's work by Max Weber. 'It is my contention that scholars would find the challenge posed by Marx more rewarding if they approached Marx's sociology through Max Weber, who presented Marx's essential and enduring thought stripped of its philosophical dogmatism. By rejecting the monocausal explanation of behaviour, Weber made the very fruitful Marxist doctrine of historical materialism available to empirical studies.' 'Without a doubt there is much in Marx that must be reconsidered and re~examined. In this book I have tried to open a new aspect to the study of Marx, simply by extending the discussion to include Weber. It is my hope that an approach to Marx through Weber ~ an approach free of party doctrine of any kind ~ will be of value to an English~speaking audience.'.

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• Title: MARX AGAINST MARXISM. Translated From The German By Harry Drost
• Publisher: London etc~. 1980. Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0710005628
• ISBN 13: 9780710005625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • political philosophy
  • world history
  • biography

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Text: English, German (translation)