Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals

Retrieving Marx for the Future
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-97715-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters — especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future. This philosophical study stands out because of its two principal features. First, it reviews and develops ideas about the future, though often only briefly discussed by Marx and his commentators, drawn from Marx's work. Second, it focuses on collective matters that are critical for Marx's ideas but rarely investigated and still problematic.

Part One introduces Marx with a discussion of emancipation and freedom in community. It then discusses the importance of retrieval and the methodology for promoting it. Part Two is about misunderstandings of Marx's ideas about productive development, division of labour, and organisations. Part Three discusses nations, morality, and democracy, all of which Marx supported. Part Four takes up Marx's significant, but misunderstood, ideas about the future and his relation to the anarchists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ware, Robert X.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Goals and Methodology
1. Emancipation and Retrievals
2. Methodological Beginnings 
3. Coquetting with Dialectics 
II. Social Relations and Organisations
4. Fettered Forces and New Found Freedom
5. Marx on the Division of Labour
6. Marx on Class Consciousness and Organisation
III. Nations, Morality, and Democracy
7. Nationalism and Internationalism
8. Marx’s Morality for All
9. Emancipatory Democracy
IV. Reflecting on Transitions and Futures
10. Marx on State and Society in the Future 
11. Marx on Some Phases of Communism 
12. Two Projects of Socialism 

Über Autor(innen)

Robert X. Ware is a Canadian philosopher, retired from The University of Calgary, Canada, and residing in Ottawa. He did post-doctoral work in linguistics at MIT and has visited universities and institutes in Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, Italy, India, and China (1980s), where he has taught and lectured on many subjects including Marxism.