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Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism

By James D. White

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1996
ISBN
9780230374218
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24988311 bytes)
Pages
430\430
Time added
2014-12-31 17:26:34

Description

The book provides a genealogy of 'dialectical materialism' by tracing the development of Marxist ideas from their origins in German philosophical thought to the ideology of the social-democratic groups in Russia in the 1890s, from which Lenin and the revolutionary generation emerged. It reconstructs Marx's original conceptions and examines the modifications that were made to them by himself and by his Russian followers, which eventually gave rise to the doctrine of 'dialectical materialism', first expounded by Plekhanov.

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