2nd Edition

Marx and Marxism

By Peter Worsley Copyright 2003
136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Marxism, and the Twentieth Century saw two huge Marxist states in total opposition to one another. In the West, Marxism has never presented a revolutionary threat to the established order, though it has taken root as the major theoretical critique of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Materials and their Synthesis; Chapter 2 The Model of Capitalism; Chapter 3 Social Evolution; Chapter 4 Socialism; Chapter 5 Marxism, Sociology and Utopia;

Biography

Peter Worsley was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.