Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
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| Title: | Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory |
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| Description: | Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory.In this comprehensive overview of Friedrich Engels's writings, Paul Blackledge critically explores Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically. Through a careful examination both of Engels's role in the forging of Marxism in the 1840s, and his contributions to the further deepening and expansion of this worldview over the next half century, Blackledge offers a closely argued and balanced assessment of his thought. This book challenges the long-standing attempt among academic Marxologists to denigrate Engels as Marx's greatest mistake, and concludes that Engels was a profound thinker whose ideas continue to resonate to this day. |
| Authors: | Paul Blackledge |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Socialism--History--19th century, Social history--19th century, Political science--Philosophy--History--19th century, Communism--History--19th century |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory.In this comprehensive overview of Friedrich Engels's writings, Paul Blackledge critically explores Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically. Through a careful examination both of Engels's role in the forging of Marxism in the 1840s, and his contributions to the further deepening and expansion of this worldview over the next half century, Blackledge offers a closely argued and balanced assessment of his thought. This book challenges the long-standing attempt among academic Marxologists to denigrate Engels as Marx's greatest mistake, and concludes that Engels was a profound thinker whose ideas continue to resonate to this day. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438476872 9781438476889 9781438476896 |