Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 493 g
Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Theory and History
Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 493 g
Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISBN: 978-3-031-22045-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book offers a reassessment politics against the predominating economicist approach to historical materialism within contemporary Marxism. Boito draws on the structural interpretation of Marxism inspired by Althusser’s works of the mid-1960s and, especially, by Poulantzas’ Political Power and Social Classes. The volume aims to demonstrate the role of the political dimension (together with the economy) and, to a further extent, to contribute to renew contemporary Marxist political theory. The chapters cover topics such as: the nature of political power; the structure and functions of the state; the role of politics in historical change; political crises; and the political formation of the working class. The book highlights the role of political structures and practices in the reproduction of economic and social relations and also in the process of historical change. The aim of the book is to contribute to the renewal of Marxist thought, breaking with the economicist conception that dominated it throughout the last century, and finally meeting the demands of the socialist struggle in the 21st century.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
First part: State, social classes and historical change
Chapter 1. The capitalist state at the center: criticism of Michel Foucault's concept of power
Chapter 2. The place of politics in Marxist theory of history
Chapter 3. State and transition to capitalism: feudalism, absolutism and bourgeois political revolution
Chapter 4. State and transition to socialism: was the Paris Commune a workers' power?
Chapter 5. The concept of revolutionary crisis: 1789
Chapter 6. Political scene and class interests in capitalist society: Marx's analysis
Second part: Politics and economics in the formation of the working classes
Chapter 7. Pre-capitalism, capitalism and worker resistance: notes for a theory of union action
Chapter 8. The (difficult) formation of the working class
Chapter 9. The constitution of the class proletariat in the Communist Party Manifesto
Chapter 10. The exhaustion of the 20 century revolutionary cycle
Chapter 11. Middle class and unionism
Chapter 12. Citizenship and social classes
