Soviet Marxism

a critical analysis.

by Herbert Marcuse

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Published 1958 by Columbia University Press in New York .
Written in English

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Series	Studies ofthe Russian Institute, Columbia University
Open Library	OL14625438M

Karl Marx influenced the Russian Revolution by publishing his book, "The Communist Manifesto" on Febru calling for a revolution from the working class people of the world in order to tear down capitalism. The Soviet Union was founded on a very different ideology, Marxism, as understood and interpreted by V. I. Lenin. Marxism, with its roots in Hegelian philosophy, was a quite conscious revolt against the individual rights doctrine of the previous century.

Marx, also known as the father of communism, spent most of his life in exile in Great Britain and France. He wrote the Communist Manifesto in , which later served as the inspiration for the formation of the Communist Party. Communism is also known as "Marxism." Marx believed that a truly utopian society must be classless and : Alia Hoyt. The Guardian - Back to home Terry Eagleton last year published a book called Why Marx Was Right. around when Thatcher was in power or when Marxism was associated with the Soviet Union Author: Stuart Jeffries.

From a Marxist point of view the Sino-Soviet dispute is a monstrous occurrence which could never take place between two genuine healthy workers' states. It is a crime which not only does untold damage to the cause of socialism on a world scale, but also stands in fundamental opposition to the interests of the workers and peasants of both Russia. "The Gulag Archipelago" is a non-fictional account from and about the other great holocaust of our century--the imprisonment, brutalization and very often murder of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own Government, mostly during Stalin's rule from to

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Cursory summation of classical Marxism and the revisions of the Second International, then detailed examinations of doctrine in Leninist, Stalinist, and Khrushchev periods. Opens with “the formation of Soviet Marxist theory proceeds on the basis of Lenin’s interpretation of Marxism, without going back to original Marxian theory” (25)/5.

ONE OF THE FIRST and best attempts by a 'critical Marxist' to present a comprehensive and balanced evaluation of Soviet society and ideology Readers sympathetic to the Soviet union will no doubt find marcuse's position presentation too critical, while others no doubt will find it Cited by: Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis.

Herbert Marcuse. Columbia University Press, - History - pages. 0 Reviews-- Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin. Preview this book. Soviet Marxism-Leninism: The Decline of an Ideology. Alfred B. Evans. ABC-CLIO, - Political Science - pages.

0 Reviews. This study examines the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology in. OCLC Number: Description: pages ; 19 cm. Contents: Political tenets. The Soviet Marxism book concept of the transition to socialism ; Soviet Marxism: the basic self-interpretation ; The new rationality ; Socialism in one country.

Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published Soviet Marxism book Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz to produce a condensed and amplified study that is far more than a translation/5.

Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities. By Paul Craig Roberts has demonstrated — in books that deserve to be much better known than they are, since they provide an. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The founding document of the Communist movement. More relevant today than when it was first written over years ago. Although it is relatively short, every line is dense with content and some find it difficult to read.

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He observes (Pg. 67) that the Soviet system seems to be "skipping" several developmental stages in /5(2). (1)ThatSovietMarxism(i.e.,Leninism,Stalinism, and post-Stalin trends) is not merelyan ideology promul- gated by the Kremlin in order torationalize and justify its.

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ISBN Harding, Neil (). Leninism. No. Marxism is a FAILED philosophy, and it failed because it CANNOT work in the real world. Doubt me. Take a look at every place that implemented Marxism: Russia, China, Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, and see how much coercion had to be done to k. Synopsis This study examines the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the U.S.S.R.

from its origins to the collapse of the Soviet regime. Top 10 books about the Russian Revolution A century after the Bolsheviks seized power for communism, Tariq Ali chooses some of the best books about an uprising that changed the world forever Tariq Ali.

A wide-ranging survey of debates within Marxism about the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. “The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm School of Economics.

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A clear understanding of the Soviet Union and Stalinism is necessary to combat the common misconceptions associated with socialism. This introduction deals with an overview of the Marxist analysis of the Soviet Union and the concept of a “deformed” or “degenerated” workers’ state.

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The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism.