Marxism, history, and intellectuals
Subtitle: toward a reconceptualized transformative socialism
By: Suman Gupta.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickenson; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Communism and intellectuals -- History.; Communism -- History.
Description: "This study focuses on that area of revolutionary socialist philosophy which is devoted to conceiving the "intellectual" and allocating (or refusing to do so) a role to the "intellectual" in the revolutionary process and state. Through an examination of the intellectual's role, the author tries to reach an understanding of the connotations and pragmatics of transformative socialism in our time.".

"Primarily this study is a survey and reexamination of the constructions of, and attitudes toward, intellectuals in different revolutionary socialist philosophies, with particular reference to the corresponding theories of history that are implicit therein. The actual process of reconceptualizing transformative socialism in our context, and in the light of the above reexamination, is taken up toward the end of the book in a more or less polemical fashion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-260) and index.