reflections on Marx and Marxism
Edición de la obra How to change the world
| Autor | Eric Hobsbawm |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Yale University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | New Haven, Conn |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 470 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780300176162 |
| ISBN-10 | 0300176163 |
| OCLC | 711045569 |
| LCCN | 2011927314 |
| Número de Cutter | H684h |
"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.