Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

Description: From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly influential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this "prophetic work" presents, according to the Library of Congress, "the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century". Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. He reveals Marxism to be "the greatest fantasy of our century...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism". In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. "Main Currents of Marxism" remains the indispensable book in its field.

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EAN: 9780393329438

UPC: 9780393329438

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Book Title: Main Currents of Marxism : the Founders the Golden Age the Breakdown

Number of Pages: 1280 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

Publication Year: 2008

Item Height: 2.2 in

Topic: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory

Genre: Political Science

Item Weight: 55.9 Oz

Author: Leszek Kolakowski

Item Length: 9.1 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Perfect