Marx and Engels
Subtitle: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Suny Series in Political Theory. Contemporary Issues)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780791444900
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Politics - Current Events; Marx, Karl,; Democracy; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political; History & Theory - General; Contributions in political sci; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; 1818-1883; 1820-1895; Engels, Friedrich,
Description: "According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presenting the first major study of the two thinkers in the past twenty years and the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials and their attitudes and policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women's equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political and party organizing and the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant and underdeveloped country like late-nineteenth-century Russia."--Jacket.