The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx

by Shlomo Avineri

• ISBN13: 9780521096195
• ISBN10: 0521096197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1970-09-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who was held to be a determinist with little concern for anything outside his narrow theory of historical materialism. Dr Avineri claims that such a gap between the 'young' and 'older' Marx did not exist. He supports his claim by a detailed study of the whole corpus of Marx's writing on social and political thought.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Hegal's political philosophy reconsidered

2. The proletariat: the universal class

3. Homo faber

4. Alienation and property

5. Praxis and revolution

6. The revolutionary ialectics of capitalist society

7. The French Revolution and the terror: the achievements and limits of political revolution

8. The new society

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.