0415285364.Routledge.Marx.and.Marxism.Jan.2003.pdf

MARX

and Marxism

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last

century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of

Marxism, and the twentieth century saw two huge Marxist states in total

opposition to one another. In the West, Marxism has never presented a

revolutionary threat to the established order, though it has taken root as

the major theoretical critique of capitalist society in intellectual circles,

and new interpretations of Marx’s thought appear each year.

Peter Worsley discusses all these major varieties of Marxism, distinguishing

between those ideas which remain valid, those which are contestable,

and those which should now be discarded. Rather than treating Marxism

purely as a philosophy in the abstract, he concentrates upon the uses to

which Marxism has been put and emphasizes the connections between

the theoretical debates and political struggles in the real world.

Peter Worsley was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of

Manchester.

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MARX

and Marxism

Revised Edition

PETER WORSLEY

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 1982 by Ellis Horwood Ltd

and Tavistock Publications Ltd

This edition first published 2002

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

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