Dialectic of Defeat

Contours of Western Marxism

Russell Jacoby

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Cambridge University Press
30 August 2002

Politics & government; Marxism & Communism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice.

By: Russell Jacoby
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780521520171
ISBN 10: 0521520177
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 August 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; Introduction; 1. Conformist Marxism; 2. The Marxism of Hegel and Engels; 3. From philosophy to politics: the inception of Western Marxism I; 4. From politics to philosophy: the inception of Western Marxism II; 5. The subterranean years; 6. Class unconsciousness; Journal abbreviations used in notes; Notes; Index.

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Dialectic of Defeat

Contours of Western Marxism

Russell Jacoby

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