Hope and Marxism
1st Edition
Published on 22. May 2023
320 pages
978-0-902869-40-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book collects essays exploring Marxist theory and history. Essays include historical examinations of Rosa Luxemburg's place in the German workers movement, the development of the bourgeois state, and of the roots of Nazi violence. Other chapters discuss Marx's notions of progress, alienation and emancipation, Luxemburg's views on political economy and political strategy. Also included are engagements with Ernst Bloch, analytical Marxism and Althusser, as well as a pioneering essay on Marxism and ecology.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Ernest Mandel's late capitalist Marxism
- 1. Althusser corrects Marx
- 2. The causes of alienation
- 3. Rosa Luxemburg and German Social Democracy
- 4. The dialectic of growth
- 5. Rosa Luxemburg and political economy
- 6. We must dream: Anticipation and hope as categories of historical materialism
- 7. A critique of Eurocommunism
- 8. On the class nature of the capitalist state
- 9. Emancipation, science and politics in Karl Marx
- 11. The origins of National Socialism: Singularity and repeatability of the Nazi crimes
- Sources
- Notes
- Footnotes
