Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders v. 1: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution by Leszek Kolakowski

Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders v. 1: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution



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Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders v. 1: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Leszek Kolakowski
Language: English
Page: 448
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0198245475, 9780198245476
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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From scattered previous editions, this volume unites the author's opus on Marxism, which he wrote in the 1970s. Kolakowski is a historian of philosophy and treats Marxism as such; that is, he does not address the history of Marxist movements, parties, and leaders. For those interested in Marxist doctrine, Kolakowski dissects it within a chronological framework, laying out its antecedents in Hegelian philosophy and varieties of socialism current in the 1830s and 1840s. Conceding Karl Marx's originality in formulating his precepts, seminally in The German Ideology (1846), Kolakowski subjects them to withering analysis, especially in their relation to Marx's claim to have discovered a science of human history. There is no mistaking Kolakowski for a Marxist, but his grasp of the interrelationship of Marxian concepts from alienated labor to historical materialism to revisionism is complete. Kolakowski also understands Marxism's propensity for schismatic development, justifying the author's description of this history as a handbook of the principal Marxist theoreticians. Gilbert Taylor
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His three volume dissection of Marxism is considered the definitive work on the subject. -- Sarah Lyall, New York Times
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