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Overview
These twelve original essays are 'after' Marx in several senses. The first and most obvious is the purely chronological sense: They are written one hundred years after Marx's death. The authors are therefore able to see more clearly what Marx did not or could not see and to see more clearly that which he foresaw only dimly. The second sense in which they are after Marx is political: In this century virtually all revolutionaries call themselves Marxists and purport to apply Marx's precepts to political practice. Armed with their different interpretations of a nineteenth-century theory, they have altered - and continue to reshape - the political contours of the twentieth century. Marx raised more questions than he, or anyone else, could ever reasonably hope to answer. To raise anew some of these questions and to approach them in the critical spirit of Marx's own thinking, are the common themes running through and uniting these essays.
Synopsis
A century after his death, Marx's ideas are still a potent political and intellectual force. This collection of original essays develops some of the most important of the themes in Marx's work, including the materialist interpretation of history, the theory of revolution, state and citizenship, ethical and moral realism, and Marxian methodology and philosophy of science. The chapters appear in three parts: 'History and Revolution', 'Morals and Politics', and 'Methodology and Criticism'. The contributors are well known for their scholarship on Marxist problems.