Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals
Retrieving Marx for the Future
Authors: Ware, Robert X.
- Highlights major differences and perspectives from major contemporary studies of Marx
- Centers around discussion of structures, organizations, and collectives in Marx’s emphasis on emancipation and democracy
- Especially focused on philosophical and theoretical issues but is widely accessible to readers in other disciplines
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- About this book
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This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters — especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future. This philosophical study stands out because of its two principal features. First, it reviews and develops ideas about the future, though often only briefly discussed by Marx and his commentators, drawn from Marx's work. Second, it focuses on collective matters that are critical for Marx's ideas but rarely investigated and still problematic.
Part One introduces Marx with a discussion of emancipation and freedom in community. It then discusses the importance of retrieval and the methodology for promoting it. Part Two is about misunderstandings of Marx's ideas about productive development, division of labour, and organisations. Part Three discusses nations, morality, and democracy, all of which Marx supported. Part Four takes up Marx's significant, but misunderstood, ideas about the future and his relation to the anarchists.
- About the authors
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Robert X. Ware is a Canadian philosopher, retired from The University of Calgary, Canada, and residing in Ottawa. He did post-doctoral work in linguistics at MIT and has visited universities and institutes in Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, Italy, India, and China (1980s), where he has taught and lectured on many subjects including Marxism.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals
- Book Subtitle
- Retrieving Marx for the Future
- Authors
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- Robert X. Ware
- Series Title
- Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-97716-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-97716-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-97715-7
- Series ISSN
- 2524-7123
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 256
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
