Marx S Theory Of The Transcendence Of The State

Author : John F. Sitton
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0820408271

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Marx's Theory of the Transcendence of the State by John F. Sitton Pdf

One of the most striking and neglected arguments of Marx's political theory is that the state will be transcended or wither away with the development of communism. This work reconstructs Marx's thesis through a comprehensive analysis of various discussions by Marx from his early critique of Hegel through his mature work. The author concludes that the plausibility of the thesis crucially depends upon the specific institutional forms of the transitional state and the possibilities for transforming the social division of labor.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right by Karl Marx Pdf

A new 2023 translation of Marx's 1844 "Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie" from the original manuscript. This edition includes a new introduction by the translator and reference materials including a Glossary of Philosophic and Economic Marxist Terminology, an Index of Personalities Associated with Marx and a Timeline of Marx’s Life and Works. This is Volume III in The Complete Works of Karl Marx by NL Press. In "Towards the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" Marx's argument is that Hegel's political philosophy is an abstraction that fails to take into account the concrete reality of human existence and the class struggles that shape it. He contends that in order to understand the state, civil society, and the concept of alienation, one must take into account the economic relations that underlie it and the material conditions of society. The central argument of Marx's critique is that the state is not a neutral arbiter of justice, but is rather an instrument of class warefare and exploitation. This is a mimicry of Feuerbach’s argument nearly word-for-word. Marx's critique serves to demonstrate the importance of a historical and materialist perspective in understanding the nature of human freedom and morality. It serves as a precursor to his later theories of historical materialism and dialectical materialism, which continue to be influential in the modern world. Marx's critique in this work centers around the idea that Hegel's philosophy is an abstraction that fails to take into account the concrete reality of human existence and the class struggles that shape it.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004383678

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Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day: Selected Writings by Raya Dunayevskaya brings out the contemporary urgency of the totality of Marx’s body of ideas and activities, and the inseparability of his economics, humanism, and dialectic.

Author : J.M. Barbalet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499541

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Marx's Construction of Social Theory (RLE Marxism) by J.M. Barbalet Pdf

This study, first published in 1983, explores the connections between Marx’s philosophy and his empirical analysis of society and state, by showing the different meanings of many of Marx’s concepts as their role in his theory changes and the theory itself develops. Beginning with an examination of Marx’s search for a sound epistemological basis on which to build a social theory, Dr Barbalet then gives an analysis of the way in which Marx continually modifies the concepts he uses, and continues with an examination of the different functions they are given in different theoretical settings. Various nuances of Marx’s thought, often obscured by the simplistic ‘early-late’ dichotomy, are revealed by Dr Barbalet’s close attention to the progressive transformation of Marx’s concepts and by his scrupulous analysis of them in not only their textual but also their theoretical context. Finally, the book examines the manner in which Marx’s construction of social theory, by its very nature, means that some material is replaced by other theoretical fabric as the theoretical structure itself is in different ways dismantled and reorganised, as Marx’s thought evolves and develops.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000006087258

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The Marxist Theory of the State by Ernest Mandel Pdf

Author : Andrew Feenberg
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781685280

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The Philosophy of Praxis by Andrew Feenberg Pdf

The early Marx called for the "realization of philosophy" through revolution. Revolution thus becomes a critical philosophical concept for Marxism, a view elaborated in the later praxis philosophies of Lukcs, and the Frankfurt School. These philosophers argue that fundamental philosophical problems are, in reality, social problems abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on the one hand, philosophical problems are significant insofar as they reflect real social contradictions; on the other hand, philosophy cannot resolve the problems it identifies because only social revolution can eliminate their causes. Realizing Philosophy traces the evolution of this argument in the writings of Marx, Lukcs, Adorno and Marcuse. This reinterpretation of the philosophy of praxis shows its continuing relevance to contemporary discussions in Marxist political theory, continental philosophy and science and technology studies.

Author : Jean-Numa Ducange,Razmig Keucheyan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319908908

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The End of the Democratic State by Jean-Numa Ducange,Razmig Keucheyan Pdf

This edited volume takes a close look at Nicos Poulantzas’s thought as a means of understanding the dynamics of the capitalist, neoliberal state in the 21st century. Nicos Poulantzas has left us with one of the most sophisticated theories of the state in the second half of the 20th century. Poulantzas’s influential theory draws inspiration from Marx, Lenin, Weber, and Foucault, among other thinkers, conceiving of the relationship between capitalism and the state as particularly original. This book aims to use Poulantzas’s theory of the capitalist state in order to understand important political and economic trends that have taken place since Poulantzas’s death in 1979. By entering into a dialogue with current Marxist and critical research in diverse fields such as political science, philosophy, sociology, history, and geography, this volume purports to evaluate the actuality of Poulantzas’s thought.

Author : István Mészáros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583679494

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Beyond Leviathan by István Mészáros Pdf

A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan is written on the magisterial scale of his previous book, Beyond Capital, and meant to complement that work. It focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth. The larger objective of this work is no less than to develop a full-edged critique of the state, in the Marxian tradition, and set against the critique of capital. Not only does it provide, for the first time, an all-embracing Marxian theory of the state, it gives new political meaning to the notion of “the withering away of the state.” In his definitive, seminal work, Mészáros seeks to illuminate the political preconditions for a society of substantive equality and substantive democracy.

Author : Axel Van den Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351303705

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The Immanent Utopia by Axel Van den Berg Pdf

The spectacular growth in the 1970s and 1980s of the Marxist literature on politics and the state in capitalist society was hailed at the time as cumulative proof of Marxism's success in producing an effective theory of the political superstructure. More generally, it was seen as confirmation of the health and vigor of Marxist theory. Axel van den Berg questions both of these claims. Through comprehensive analysis of Marxist thought on bourgeois politics and the state, from that produced by Marx himself on, van den Berg radically challenges the viability of a distinctly Marxist theory of the state and of recent Marxist theorizing in general. In an exhaustive review of the literature, van den Berg shows that neo-Marxist theories are, for the most part, not empirically testable. To the extent that it is possible to draw any empirical implications from these theories at all, such implications are virtually indistinguishable from those of "bourgeois" theories. Van den Berg proceeds to lay bare the contradiction at the heart of Marxist theory in general: it presupposes the viability and desirability of some ideal socialist society yet its "anti-utopian" insistence that all criticisms of capitalism must rest on foundations immanent in capitalism itself prohibits any open discussion of such a utopia. Now available in paperback, this is a fundamental work for political and social theorists. "This work is brilliant in its polemical courage, its originality, and its detailed and revealing examination of texts. Van den Berg demonstrates that postwar Marxist political theory and sociology is not only vague and contradictory but that it actually makes critical concessions to the bourgeois thought' it claims to surpass. Appearing in the midst of afar-reaching reconsideration of the Marxism project in Europe, this volume crystallizes these issues for North American social science..."--Jeffrey Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles. "Van den Berg has made a major contribution to the long overdue relegation of Marxism to the museum of nineteenth-century ideological antiquities."--Dennis Wrong, Contemporary Sociology. Axel van den Berg is a Dutch-Canadian professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal. His most recent work is The Social Sciences and Rationality.

Author : Robert Eccleshall,Michael Kenny
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0719035694

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Western Political Thought by Robert Eccleshall,Michael Kenny Pdf

This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability.

Author : Hermes Benitez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Alienation (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:1436662949

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Marx's Theory of Human Nature by Hermes Benitez Pdf

This thesis is dedicated to the critical examination of a central objection to Marx's theory of alienation: an objection which affects indirectly his theory of Man as a whole. The objection consists in the accusation that in order to expose man's social alienation and to strive for its transcendence, Marx necessarily requires a utopian or ahistori- cal concept of man, as the standard by which the present condition of man is to be judged. Thus, according to this interpretation, when Marx describes the present state of man as "alienated" he is in fact saying that man has been deprived of his "true essence"; but in so far as Marx rejects at the same time the notion of a constant nature of man he can not consistently claim to know in advance what this "true essence" of man can be in the future. This thesis responds to the criticism sketched above, showing that the whole objection is based on a complete misunderstanding of the meaning of Marx's concept of alienation, and of the theory of its his torical transcendence. As this thesis shows these two misconceptions are based, in turn, on the critics' lack of perception of two narrowly related conceptions: (1) The doctrine, expressed in The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts , according to which labour is the "key" to the knowledge of man's essence; (2) The doctrine of the dialectical unity of man's actual and possible nature, or which is the same, the marxian theory of man's essence.

Author : David MacGregor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429719127

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Hegel, Marx, And The English State by David MacGregor Pdf

In this radically revised intellectual portrait of Hegel and Marx that challenges standard interpretations of their political theory, David MacGregor considers the nature of the state in capitalist society. This is the first book to place Marx’s and Hegel’s political thought directly into social and historical context. Revealing the revolutionary c

Author : O’Connell, Paul,Özsu, Umut
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788119863

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Research Handbook on Law and Marxism by O’Connell, Paul,Özsu, Umut Pdf

This Research Handbook offers unparalleled insights into the large-scale resurgence of interest in Marx and Marxism in recent years, with contributions devoted specifically to Marxist critiques of law, rights, and the state.

Author : Georg Lukacs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438411415

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The Process of Democratization by Georg Lukacs Pdf

Georg Lukacs's The Process of Democratization provides indispensable reading for an understanding of the revolution that swept Russia and Eastern Europe during 1989-1990. Lukacs, a spokesman for anti-Bolshevik communism, was the advance guard of anti-Stalinist reform. Written in the aftermath of the Prague Spring, his book was a precursor to many of the Gorbachev reforms. Lukacs was the leading communist intellectual in the world until his death. During his last 15 years, he embarked upon a massive effort to revive Marxism as philosophy, as aesthetics, and as politics. The Process of Democratization was part of this attempt at a Marxist renaissance. He would probably be surprised to find that the Second Russian Revolution of 1989-1990 moved far beyond his reformism, overthrowing even the anti-Stalinist communism that he fought to retain.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547045038

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels Pdf

"The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" is an 1884 historical materialist treatise by the founder of the communism ideology Friedrich Engels. The book is based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society (1877). This is an early anthropological work, regarded as one of the first major works on family economics.