Renowned for its profound impact on the 20th century, this influential text delves into the principles of communism and critiques capitalism. It serves as a crucial work in political history, offering insights into class struggle and revolutionary ideas. Essential for anyone interested in the evolution of political thought, it remains a compelling exploration of societal change and ideology.
The biography offers an in-depth exploration of Marx's life and revolutionary ideas, highlighting significant events and intellectual contributions. David McLellan presents a comprehensive narrative that combines biographical details with an analysis of Marx's influential theories. This updated edition also includes extensive bibliographical resources for readers interested in further study, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand Marx's legacy.
The third edition of Marxism after Marx is an updated version of what has become the classic account of twentieth-century Marxism. It includes new bibliographical information and sections covering developments over the last decade. This new edition represents a comprehensive and reliable guide to one of the most influential bodies of thought of our century.
Since his death in 1883, Marx has been revised, distorted and rediscovered. This work provides a survey of Marx's life and his contributions to the varied fields of history, economics and politics.
Provides the basic elements necessary for a grasp of the range and complexity of Marx's ideas. The first half of the book is a chronological account of Marx's ideas. The second half is thematic and gives a summary of Marx's position with extracts from his key texts on such topics as class.
Sets Karl Marx and his ideas against the historical sweep of his times. This biography follows Marx from his middle-class origins in Trier and student days, through the years of travel across Europe in search of sanctuary to London, and the labours on "Capital", and finally to Highgate cemetery.
The premis of this study is that Marx's world view was very much a product of its time, and as such, it can only be understood in relation to the intellectual climate in which it was conceived. In this text, the author examines the influential force of the Young Hegelian movement, and discusses the work of the leading Young Hegelians, including Bruno Bauer, Feuerbach, Stirner and Hess - and their influence on Marx.
This is the first paperback edition in English of substantial extracts from the Grundrisse, the 1000-page manuscript in which Marx synthesized, for the only time in his life, the humanism of his youth with his later researches in history and economics. Comprising the draft notes for the massive projected treatise on political economy of which Dask Kapital was to have been merely the beginning, the manuscript remained inaccessible outside Russia until the 1950s. The Grundrisse (outlines) contains an historically detailed account of the process of alienation, analyses of the nature of work and, above all, a vision of the fully automated society in which social wealth could be devoted to the all-round development of the faculties of each individual. Dr David McLellan prefaces each extract in his selection with a brief explanatory note and, in a discerning introduction to the work as a whole, places the Grundrisse in the development of Marx's thought and vindicates its claim to be Marx's most important work. 'The extracts are most effectively and unobtrusively edited and the introduction is a little gem of creative scholarship... any assessment of Marxism which fails to come to grips with the Grundrisse must now be considered inadequate.' GUARDIAN
His Life and Thought