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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Book Title: Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden

Item Length: 23.1 cm

Number of Pages: 1312 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Main Currents of Marxism: the Founders-The Golden Age-The Breakdown

Publisher: Ww Norton & Co

Publication Year: 2008

Item Height: 234 mm

Item Weight: 1568 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Leszek Kolakowski

Subject Area: Political Science

Item Width: 155 mm

Format: Paperback