Karl Marx
By: Karl Korsch ; foreword by Martin Buckmiller
Contributors: Buckmiller, Martin
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781608465569
Subjects: Communism; Socialism
Notes: First published in the UK in 1938.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: part 1. Society: Marxism and sociology ; The principle of historical specification ; The principle of historical specification (continued) ; The principle of change ; The principle of criticism ; A new type of generalisation ; Practical implications; title: part 2. Political economy: Marxism and political economy ; From political economy to "economics" ; From political economy to the Marxian critique of political economy ; Scientific versus philosophical criticism of political economy ; Two aspects of revolutionary materialism in Marx's economic theory ; The economic theory of Capital ; The fetishistic commodities ; The "social contract" ; The law of value ; Common misunderstandings of the Marxian doctrine of value and surplus-value ; The ultimate aims of Marx's critique of political economy; title: part 3. History: The materialist conception of history ; The genesis of historical materialism ; The materialist scheme of society ; Nature and society ; Productive forces and production-relations ; Base and superstructure ; Conclusions.