How to change the world
Subtitle: reflections on Marx and Marxism
By: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780300176162
Subjects: Communism; Socialism; Influence; Marxian economics
Description: "The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and our current historical situation of free-market extremes suggests that reading Marx may be more important now than ever.  Hobsbawm begins with a consideration of how we should think about Marxism in the post-communist era, observing that the features we most associate with Soviet and related regimes--command economies, intrusive bureaucratic structures, and an economic and political condition of permanent was--are neither derived from Marx's ideas nor unique to socialist states. Further chapters discuss pre-Marxian socialists and Marx's radical break with them, Marx's political milieu, and the influence of his writings on the anti-fascist decades, the Cold War, and the post--Cold War period. Sweeping, provocative, and full of brilliant insights, How to Change the World challenges us to reconsider Marx and reassess his significance in the history of ideas." --Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-455) and index.
Table of contents: title: Marx and Engels.  Marx today; title: Marx, Engels and pre-Marxian Socialism; title: Marx, Engels and politics; title: On Engels'  'the condition of the working class in England; title: On the 'Communist Manifesto'; title: Discovering the 'Grundrisse'; title: Marx on pre-Capitalist formations; title: The fortunes of Marx's and Engels' writings; title: Marxism. Dr Marx and the Victorian critics; title: The influence of Marxism 1880-1914; title: In the era of anti-fascism 1929-45; title: Gramsci; title: The reception of Gramsci; title: The influnence of Marxism 1945-83; title: Marxism in recession 1983-2000; title: Marx and labour: the long century.