Ebook: Marx Against Marxism Routledge Library Editions

This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx's teaching on his followers. He uses Marx to speak against the rigid dogmatism inherent in much of Marxism and concentrates on the interpretations of Marx's work by Max Weber.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the first German edition (1970); Preface to the second German edition (1976); Preface to the English edition; Part one Antecedents; 1 The intellectual setting; 2 Marx's philosophical apprenticeship; 3 Modern capitalism; 4 The emergence of socialism; 5 The Hegelian dialectic; 6 Feuerbach's inversion of the dialectic; 7 Marx's early communist phase: the realization of the true political community; Part two Marx's thought; 8 The birth of historical materialism.