How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
- ISBN-10
- 0300178255
- ISBN-13
- 9780300178258
- Series
- How to Change the World
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 479
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Eric J. Hobsbawm
Description
"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.
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