Introduction to Marxist Theory
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2021
304 pages
978-0-902869-64-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. "The Leninist Theory of Organisation" is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The "Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory" was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics. This book is the first in a series of selected writings by Ernest Mandel.
CONTENTS:
Introduction by Ian Parker
The Marxist Theory of the State
The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
The Nature of Social-Democratic Reformism
On Bureaucracy: A Marxist Analysis
The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
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- Intro
- Introduction
- The Marxist theory of the state
- Foreword by George Novack
- Origin and development of the state in the history of societies
- Primitive society and the origins of the state
- The modern bourgeois state
- The bourgeois state: The face of everyday reality
- The proletariat in power
- The Marxist theory of imperialism and its critics
- An introduction to Marxist economic theory
- The theory of value and surplus value
- Capital and capitalism
- Neo-capitalism
- The nature of social-democratic reformism
- On bureaucracy: A Marxist analysis
- Introduction
- Basic Concepts
- The problem of bureaucracy: Stages in the development of a scientific analysis
- The bureaucracy in the workers' states
- The Leninist theory of organisation
- Introduction
- Bourgeois ideology and proletarian class consciousness
- Proletarian class struggle and proletarian class consciousness
- The revolutionary vanguard and spontaneous mass action
- Organisation, bureaucracy and revolutionary action
- Organisational theory, revolutionary programme, revolutionary practice
- Organisational theory, democratic centralism and soviet democracy
- Sociology of economism, bureaucratism and spontaneity
- Scientific intelligentsia, social science and proletarian class consciousness
- Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness
- Sources
- About the publishers
- Footnotes
