Routledge Library Editions: Marxism
About the Book Series
Marxist thought continues to be relevant in the modern world, perhaps to the surprise of those who celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall with the declaration that democracy and the market had ‘won’ the march of history. This 23-volume set collects together both accounts of the development of Marxism and critiques of its thinking. Out-of-print or had to find, these titles form an essential reference source for the understanding of Marxism in all its varied facets.
Before the Revisionist Controversy: Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898
1st Edition
By H. Kendall Rogers
October 21, 2016
In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) ...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: An Analytical Bibliography
1st Edition
By Cecil Eubanks
October 21, 2016
The project to publish the works of Marx and Engels continues, and this book, published in 1984, puts together a comprehensive bibliography of their works either written in or translated into English, including books, monographs, articles, chapters and doctoral dissertations, together with the ...
Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis
1st Edition
By Gavin Kitching
October 21, 2016
In this major study, first published in 1988, Professor Kitching builds on recent scholarship on Marx and Wittgenstein to provide an incisive, readable account and critique of the whole of Marx’s work. He presents the philosophical, economic, and political Marx as one thinker, and argues that the ...
Karl Marx in his Earlier Writings
1st Edition
By H.P. Adams
October 21, 2016
This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the earlier works of Marx, with emphasis on what seemed to throw most light on the man and his systematic thought. As such, it is an invaluable contribution to the study of Marx and ...
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter
1st Edition
By Boris Nicolaievsky, Otto Maenchen-Helfen
October 21, 2016
Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book’s first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done. To some he was – and still is – a fiend, the arch-enemy of human civilisation, and the prince of ...
Kritsman and the Agrarian Marxists
1st Edition
Edited
By Terry Cox, Gary Littlejohn
October 21, 2016
Of all the scholarly work on the countryside done in pre-1917 Russia and in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, that of L.N. Kritsman and those influenced by him – the so-called ‘Agrarian Marxists’ – is perhaps the least well known. However, that work was of extremely high quality and very original. Its...
Marx and the New Individual
1st Edition
By Ian Forbes
October 21, 2016
In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical ...
Marx's 'Grundrisse' and Hegel's 'Logic'
1st Edition
Edited
By Terrell Carver, Hiroshi Uchida
October 21, 2016
Marx’s Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx’s early and late work. It is also a crucial text in elucidating Marx’s debt to the idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. This book, first published in 1988, is the first full-length study of that relationship, in a thorough textual ...
Marx's Construction of Social Theory
1st Edition
By J. Barbalet
October 21, 2016
This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx’s philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx’s concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops. Beginning with an examination of ...
Marx's Critical/Dialectical Procedure
1st Edition
By H.T. Wilson
October 21, 2016
This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of humans as collective, cultural and historical beings, Marx undertook a radical critique of the ...
Marx's Proletariat: The Making of a Myth
1st Edition
By David Lovell
October 21, 2016
George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever ...
Marx's Theory of Ideology
1st Edition
By William R. McKercher
October 21, 2016
Although Marx’s concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing. There has been no systematic attempt to examine why Marx needed the concept of ideology, why it was an important concept for him and how it related to his ...