How to change the world : reflections on Marx and Marxism / Eric Hobsbawm.
| Author/creator |
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. Press, 2011. |
| Description | viii, 470 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Marx and Engels. Marx today -- Marx, Engels and pre-Marxian Socialism -- Marx, Engels and politics -- On Engels' 'the condition of the working class in England -- On the 'Communist Manifesto' -- Discovering the 'Grundrisse' -- Marx on pre-Capitalist formations -- The fortunes of Marx's and Engels' writings -- Marxism. Dr Marx and the Victorian critics -- The influence of Marxism 1880-1914 -- In the era of anti-fascism 1929-45 -- Gramsci -- The reception of Gramsci -- The influnence of Marxism 1945-83 -- Marxism in recession 1983-2000 -- Marx and labour: the long century. |
| Abstract | "The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and our current historical situation of free-market extremes suggests that reading Marx may be more important now than ever. Hobsbawm begins with a consideration of how we should think about Marxism in the post-communist era, observing that the features we most associate with Soviet and related regimes--command economies, intrusive bureaucratic structures, and an economic and political condition of permanent was--are neither derived from Marx's ideas nor unique to socialist states. Further chapters discuss pre-Marxian socialists and Marx's radical break with them, Marx's political milieu, and the influence of his writings on the anti-fascist decades, the Cold War, and the post--Cold War period. Sweeping, provocative, and full of brilliant insights, How to Change the World challenges us to reconsider Marx and reassess his significance in the history of ideas." --Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-455) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011927314 |
| ISBN | 9780300176162 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0300176163 (hbk.) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HX39.5 .H587 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |