Tag: Marxism

Free Download Charles F. Elliott, "Marxism In The Contemporary West"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367171597 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 0.4 mb
This book examines Marxism and the activities of European and Latin American communist parties in the broad context of contemporary Western politics. It addresses important philosophical and moral questions deriving from the clash of Western and Marxist values.

Free Download Marxism and Law By Hugh Collins
1996 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0192851446 | PDF | 25 MB
In this introduction to Marxism and the law, Hugh Collins presents a unified and coherent view of Marxism, which he uses to examine the specific characteristics of legal institutions, rules, and ideals. He pays particular attention to the place of ideology in law, the distinction between base and superstructure, and the destiny of law in a Communist society. His principal theme is the Marxist critique of the ideal of the Rule of Law. He argues that the main purpose of a Marxist theory of law is to expose the belief in the Rule of Law as being a subtle and pervasive ideology which serves to obscure the structures of class domination within the State. The author frequently subjects the Marxist approach to criticism and he shows that many of the Marxist claims about law are unproven or misconceived. The book is written in straightforward non-technical language which requires no knowledge of either Marxism or law.

Free Download N.I. Bukharin, A.M. Deborin, Y.M. Yuranovsky, "Marxism and Modern Thought"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415679028, 0415678838 | EPUB | pages: 344 | 0.4 mb
First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era. Written by a selection of leading Marxist thinkers, including Nikolai Bukharin who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, this work offers a Marxist critique of contemporary thought relating to philosophy, science and history. The authors all tend towards the view that the general tendency of modern thought is to abandon the historical method and to deny progress, with the conclusion that Marxism was the only historical and progressive outlook in science, philosophy and history in the period following the First World War and the Communist revolution in Russia.

Free Download Darren Webb, "Marx, Marxism and Utopia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138719986, 0754611787 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.5 mb
This title was first published in 2000: This engaging new book suggests that Marx was right to reject ‘utopian socialism’ on the grounds that it undermined the principles of proletarian self-emancipation and self-determination. As a theoretician of the proletarian class, Marx sought to capture the spirit of revolution in a manner which precluded the need for utopian philanthropy and the messianic elitism which invariably accompanied it. In a powerful and original central argument, the book suggests that the categories which together define Marx’s own ‘utopia’ were nothing more than theoretical by-products of the models employed by Marx in order to supersede the need for utopianism. As such, Marx was an ‘accidental’ utopian. Rather than legitimating utopianism, however, the author argues that this conclusion reinforces the need to develop Marx’s anti-utopian project further. Emphasising the contemporary relevance of Marx’s original critique, the conclusion suggests that the future of socialism lies in its ability to harness, not the spirit of utopia, but the spirit of adventure.

Free Download Steven Bittle, "Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance"
English | ISBN: 0415791421 | 2018 | 342 pages | EPUB | 780 KB
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term ‘crimes of the powerful.’ His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Historically, crimes of the powerful were largely neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of work addressing this gap. This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce’s book and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and on a global scale.