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Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx

By George C. Comninel

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2019
ISBN
1137576235, 9781137576231, 9781137575340
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3153406 bytes)
Series
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XXVI, 342\358
Time added
2019-01-12 08:15:21
Political Science and International Relations; Pol

Description

This book considers Karl Marx’s ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. The book follows his developing ideas from before he encountered political economy, through the politics of 1848 and the Bonapartist “farce,”, the maturation of the critique of political economy in the Grundrisse and Capital, and his engagement with the politics of the First International and the legacy of the Paris Commune. Notwithstanding errors in historical judgment largely reflecting the influence of dominant liberal historiography, Marx laid the foundations for a new social theory premised upon the historical consequences of alienation and the potential for human freedom.

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