Karl Marx / by Karl Korsch ; with an introduction by Michael Buckmiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korsch, Karl, 1886-1961.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series 85.

Historical materialism book series ; v. 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Socialism.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The republication of Karl Korsch's Karl Marx (1938) makes available to a new generation of readers the most concise account of Karl Marx's thought by one of the major figures of twentieth-century Western Marxism. Originally written for publication in a series on 'Modern Sociologists', Korsch's book sought to bring Marx's work to life for an audience of non-specialist readers. As Michael Buckmiller writes in his new introduction to the work, Korsch wanted his book to serve as a passport into the non-dogmatic sections of the American labour movement. The result is a bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx's thought, and a pungent history of 'Marxism' itself.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 Marxism and Sociology

2 The Principle of Historical Specification

3 The Principle of Historical Specification (continued)

4 The Principle of Change

5 The Principle of Criticism

6 A New Type of Generalisation

7 Practical Implications

1 Marxism and Political Economy

2 From Political Economy to ‘Economics’

3 From Political Economy to the Marxian Critique of Political Economy

4 Scientific versus Philosophical Criticism of Political Economy

5 Two Aspects of Revolutionary Materialism in Marx’s Economic Theory

6 The Economic Theory of Capital

7 The Fetishism of Commodities

8 The ‘Social Contract’

9 The Law of Value

10 Common Misunderstandings of the Marxian Doctrine of Value and Surplus-Value

11 The Ultimate Aims of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

1 The Materialist Conception of History

2 The Genesis of Historical Materialism

3 The Materialist Scheme of Society

4 Nature and Society

5 Productive Forces and Production-Relations

6 Base and Superstructure

7 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index of Names.

Notes:

Originally published in 1938 in London by Chapman and Hall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-27220-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004272200 DOI