UID:
(DE-602)edocfu_9959240294202883
Format:
1 online resource (480 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-300-17825-5
Content:
"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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
,
pt. 1. Marx and Engels -- pt. 2. Marxism.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-17616-3
Language:
English
