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11%OFFAndrzej Walicki - Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia - 9780804731645 - V9780804731645
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Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia

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Description for Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia Paperback. This book reconstructs Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, highlights its centrality to their vision of the communist society of the future, traces its development in the history of Marxist thought and explains how it was transformed at the height of its influence into a legitimation of totalitarian practices. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3810 x 37. Weight in Grams: 875.

The aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its development in the history of Marxist thought, including Marxism-Leninism, and to explain how it as possible for it to be transformed at the height of its influence into a legitimization of totalitarian practices.

The relevance of the Marxist conception of freedom for an understanding of communist totalitarianism derives from the historical fact that the latter came into being as a the result of a conscious, strenuous striving to ... Read more

The last section of the book gives a concise analysis of the dismantling of Stalinism, involving not only the gradual detotalitarization but also the partial decommunization of "really existing socialism."

Throughout, Marxism is treated as an ideology that has compromised itself but that nevertheless deserves to be seen as the most important, however exaggerated and, ultimately, tragically mistaken, reaction to the multiple shortcomings of capitalist societies and the liberal tradition.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804731645
SKU
V9780804731645
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About Andrzej Walicki
Andrzej Walicki is O'Neill Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews for Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia
"Walicki makes a significant contribution to debates over reasons for the collapse of international communism. A book of such monumental scope will arouse controversies among Marxologists, but this book is an intellectual tour de force, rarely equaled in studies of Marxism."—R.J. Mitchell, University of New Orleans "This book is a product of mature scholarship which serves to confirm anew Walicki's ... Read more

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