(P/B) KARL MARX'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION (VOLUME II)

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The Foreword to Volume 1 took up a number of overall problems faced by any attempt to present Marx's views, particularly by an attempt at "a full and definitive treatment" of Marx's political thought. One of these problems can be usefully discussed again from another angle, taking inspiration from an article by Engels called "How Not to Translate Marx."
I explained why this work has taken the route of presenting a large number of passages from Marx and Engels themselves, instead of merely offering the hundred-and-nth "interpretation" of their views, and I contrasted this method with "quotation-mongering." Of course, quotation-mongering, being a pejorative, means any kind of quoting you don't like; but instead of pinning a definition to the mat, I offer a more positive contribution. What are the booby traps to look for in quoting from Marx and Engels?
The answer naturally applies in generalized form to anyone else. But nothing compares with marxology as the natural habitat of tendentious quotation. Ronald L. Meek put it mildly when he wrote: "All too often, writers seem to assume that when dealing with Marx it is permissible to relax academic standards to a degree which they themselves would regard as quite illegitimate if they were dealing with any other economist."' As usual, the main problem is not dishonesty. To be sure, there is a minor sector of the field, the gutter school of marxology, where anything goes; but this need not concern us here. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword
PART I: THE PROLETARIAT AND PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION
1. Patterns of revolution
2. The special class
3. Anatomy of the proletariat
4. Trade unions and class
5. Trade unions and politics
6. The principle of class self-emancipation
PART II: SOCIAL CLASSES IN REVOLUTION
7. The Bourgeoisie and Bourgeois revolution
8. Permanent revolution in 1848
9. Permanent revolution: final version
10. Bourgeois and proletarian revolution: balance sheet
11. The petty-Bourgeoisie in revolution
12. The peasant question: social setting
13. The peasant question: toward a revolutionary alliance
14. The peasant question: programmatic problems
15. The lumpen-class versus the proletariat
PART III: MIXED-CLASS ELEMENTS
16. Intellectual labor and laborers
17. The social role of intellectual elements
18. Intellectuals and the proletarian movement
APPENDICES