1st Edition

Marxism An Historical and Critical Study

By George Lichtheim Copyright 1964
434 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1961 and revised in 1964, is both a critical study of a body of thought and an historical account of how Marxist theory arose from the context of European history in the 19 th century. It traces the development of socialist thought from the French to the Russian Revolutions and attempts to show in what manner the political and intellectual problems of Central Europe... Read more

1. The Heritage, 1789-1840  1.1. German Idealism  1.2. Philosophic Radicalism  1.3. Early Socialism  2. The Marxian Synthesis, 1840-1848  2.1. The Logic of History  2.2. The Critique of Society  2.3. The Doctrine of Revolution  3. The Test of Reality, 1848-1871  3.1. The German Question  3.2. Nationalism and Democracy  3.3. Socialism and the Labour Movement  3.4. The First International  3.5. The Commune  3.6. The Permanent Revolution  4. The Theory of Bourgeois Society, 1850-1895  4.1. The Victorian Watershed  4.2. Historical Materialism  4.3. Bourgeois Society  4.4. Political Economy  4.5. Marxian Economics  5. Marxian Socialism, 1871-1918  5.1. General Character of the Period  5.2. Marxism, Anarchism, Syndicalism  5.3. Engels  5.4. Dialectical Materialism  5.5. Kautsky  5.6. The Revisionists  5.7. The Radicals  5.8. Lenin  6. The Dissolution of the Marxian System, 1918-1948  6.1. War and Revolution  6.2. State and Society  6.3. Socialism and Class Conflict  6.4. Beyond Marxism

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George Lichtheim