Marxism and the Socialist Transition : Volume I: State, Power and Bureaucracy / Roberto Sáenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sáenz, Roberto, author.

Series:

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 346.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 346

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Political science.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Volume I: State, Power and Bureaucracy

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We have before us the immeasurable historical laboratory of the Russian Revolution, the greatest revolution of our time, and also the most terrible bureaucratic counterrevolution. The working class fought, won, seized power, and expropriated the capitalists: a remarkable anti-capitalist feat. But it was then politically expropriated by the bureaucracy—that “tissue of practical illusions” which became a “political class”, degenerated the character of the state into a bureaucratic one, and blocked the socialist transition. This experience is ours to grasp and draw radical conclusions from. Socialist transition is a social, economic, and political process, in which real workers’ power is essential to lead the way.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Note on Conventions and References

1 Introduction to Robert Ashley and His Library

1 Chapter Summaries

2 Biographical Background

3 Robert Ashley’s Life at the ‘Temple’

4 The Contemporary Context of Ashley’s Library

2 Outline and Analysis of Ashley’s Library

1 The Earliest Catalogues of the Library

2 Methodology

3 Analysis of the Library: Subjects

4 Analysis of the Library: Place of Publication, Language, and Date

5 Analysis of the Library: ‘Rare’ Books

6 Analysis of the Library: Sammelband Volumes

7 Analysis of the Library: Multiple Copies, Bindings

8 Methods of Book Acquisition

9 The Library’s Purpose

10 Conclusion

3 Ashley’s Signs of Reading

1 Defining Ashley’s Signs of Reading

3 Case Studies: Almanacs

4 Case Studies: Astrology

5 Case Studies: Classical and Patristic Works

6 Caption Titles in Seneca

7 Case Studies: Geography and Travels

8 Briggs Map with Ashley’s Transcriptions

9 Case Studies: Religious Works

10 Comparisons between English and French Versions of Bignon

11 Ashley’s Transcriptions from Anticoton

12 Case Studies: Miscellaneous Works

13 Conclusion

14 Marginalia Referenced in Chapter 2

4 Bibliographical Tools

1 Conrad Gessner: the Bibliotheca universalis and Bibliotheca instituta

2 The Early Library Catalogues of the Bodleian Library

3 Frankfurt Book Fair Catalogues and Booksellers’ Catalogues

4 The Index librorum prohibitorum and John Gee’s The foot out of the snare

5 Book Lists

6 Juan Bautista Cardona’s De Regia S. Laurentii bibliotheca

7 Conclusion

8 Marginalia Referenced in Chapter 3

5 Manuscript Circulation

1 ‘The General Estate of the Scottish Commonwealth’, Circa 1580

2 Dudley Digges The Defence of Trade, 1615

3 ‘The Book of Magical Charms’

4 Miscellaneous Texts

5 Conclusion

6 Comparison of Five Versions of the ‘General estate of the Scottish commonwealth’

6 Ashley’s Translations

1 A Comparison of the English and Spanish Nation

2 L’Urania sive musa coelestis

3 Of the Interchangeable Course, or Variety of Things in the Whole World

4 ‘Of Honour’

5 Almansor the Learned and Victorious King That Conquered Spaine

6 Cochin-China

7 David Persecuted

8 Conclusion

9 Comparisons between Ashley’s Annotations and Translation of Leroy’s Text

Appendices

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74725-7

9789004747258

OCLC:

1558443900

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004747258 DOI