How to change the world : reflections on Marx and Marxism / Eric Hobsbawm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Socialism.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

How to change the world : tales of Marx and Marxism

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Marx and Engels

pt. 2. Marxism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-300-17825-5

OCLC:

923596390