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ISBN 10: 0429974779
ISBN 13: 9780429974779
Author: Richard Schmitt

This book steers a middle path between those who argue that the theories of Marx and Engels have been rendered obsolete by historical events and those who reply that these theories emerge untouched from the political changes of the last ten years.Marxism has been a theory of historical change that claimed to be able to predict with considerable accuracy how existing institutions were going to change. Marxism has also been a political program designed to show how these inevitable changes could be hastened. Richard Schmitt argues that Marxian predictions are ambiguous and unreliable, adding that the political program is vitiated by serious ambiguities in the conceptions of class and of political and social transformations. Marxism remains of importance, however, because it is the major source of criticisms of capitalism and its associated social and political institutions. We must understand such criticisms if we are to understand our own world and live in it effectively. While very critical of the failures of Marx and Engels, this book offers a sympathetic account of their criticism of capitalism and their visions of a better world, mentions some interpretive controversies, and connects the questions raised by Marx and Engels to contemporary disputes to show continuity between social thought in the middle of the last century and today.Addressed to undergraduate students, the book is easily accessible. It will be important in introductory or middle-level courses in sociology, political theory, critical theory of literature or law. It will also be useful in graduate courses in political theory, sociology, and economics.

Introduction To Marx And Engels a Critical Reconstruction 2nd Table of contents:

1 Human Nture
Marx and Engels on Human Nature
Species Being
For Further Reading
Notes
2 Against Individualism
The Varieties of Individualism
Marx and Engels’ Opposition to Individualism
Marx and Engels’ Opposition to Collectivism
What Is the Position of Marx and Engels?
For Further Reading
Notes
3 History
History as the Transformation of Human Nature
Writing History
For Further Reading
Notes
4 The Dialectic
Hegel’s Dialectic
The Marxian Dialectic
Historical Explanation
Dialectical Explanations
For Further Reading
Notes
5 Historical Materialism
Forces and Relations of Production
Why Take Historical Materialism Seriously?
Tor Further Reading
Notes
6 Materialism and Idealism
Base and Superstructure
The Sources of Self-Evidence
Tor Further Reading
Note
7 Ideology
What Is Ideology?
Ideology and Science
Fetishism
Marx and Ethics
False Consciousness
For Further Reading
Note
8 Capitalism
What Is Modern Capitalism ?
Other Characteristics of Capitalism
For Further Reading
Note
9 Capitalism and Exploitation
Exploitation
The Classical Marxian Theory of Exploitation
Contemporary Versions of Marx’s Theory of Exploitation
For Further Reading
Note
10 Alienation
Alienation in Marx’s Early Works
Worker Alienation
Alienation in the Later Works
Alienation and Freedom
For Further Reading
Note
11 The Future of Capitalism and Its Failures
How Reliable Are the Predictions of Marx and Engels?
The End of Marxism?
What Is Wrong with Capitalism: The Unseen Hand Is Inept
What Is Wrong with Capitalism: The Threat to Preedom and Democracy
For Further Reading
Notes
12 What Are Classes?
Three Meanings of “Class,”
Class Consciousness
For Further Reading
Notes
13 Class Struggles
What Is Class Struggle?
Class Struggle and Political Action
The Primacy of Class Struggle
For Further Reading
Notes
14 The State
The State as Manager of the Affairs of the Bourgeoisie
The Executive Committee of the Bourgeoisie
The Independent State
The State and Civil Society
Class Struggle in the Democratic State
For Further Reading
Notes
15 Utopian and Scientific Socialism
Utopian Socialism
Scientific Socialism
What We Can Learn from the Critique of Utopianism
Notes
16 Socialism
The Socialist Goals
Socialist Institutions
Revolution
For Further Reading
Notes

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