Socialism and social science : selected writings of Ervin Szabo (1877-1918) / edited by Gyorgy Litvan and Janos M. Bak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szabó, Ervin, 1877-1918, author.

Contributor:

Bak, János M.

Litván, György.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and social sciences.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays and letters of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future, are still relevant today.The writings selected in this work, first published in 1982, are primarily those which address themselves to general issues of the European working-class movement and socialist theory, but there are also a few pieces that characterize the intellectual and political

Contents:

Socialism and Social Science Selected Writings of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918); Copyright; SOCIALISM AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SELECTED WRITINGS OF ERVIN SZABO (1877-1918); Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' introduction; Part I: On Marx and Marxism; On the materialist concept of history; Socialism; On editing Marx: A correspondence with Karl Kautsky; Back to Marx! Editor's preface to vol. I of the 'Selected Works of Marx and Engels'; Marx and Bakunin (Introduction to Marx's 'Inaugural Address to the International Working Men's Association'); Marx; Part II: On The Socialist Movement

Masses or individualsParty discipline and the freedom of the individual; Syndicalism and Social Democracy; The role of the political party in the workers' movement (Introduction to Marx's 'Critique of the Gotha Programme'); American and European socialism; Part III: On Social Science, History and Literature; The Hungarian Revolution; The agrarian question in Hungary; Can politics ever be scientific?; The tasks of the Sociological Society (Presidential address); What is read and what should be; 'Proletarian Poetry' (To the book of Zseni Várnai's poems)

Vulgar Marxism. A reply to Ernó BresztovszkyCulture and cultivation; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1982 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd."--T.p. verso.

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ISBN:

1-136-62630-1

1-283-84644-6

1-136-62631-X

0-203-80236-5

9780203802366

OCLC:

821175817