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Marxism and Social Science
In a feisty rebuttal of current thinking regarding the rejection of Marxism, the contributors to this study reveal how it has engaged with Postmodernism, new right theory and feminism and assess its usefulness as a tool for analysing a range of issues.
The Soviet Union and Social Science Theory
Monograph containing essays on characteristics of the political system of the USSR and on its perception by sociologists in the USA - discusses the relationship of the communist political party and social classes, distribution of political power among interest groups, centralization and decentralization, trends in political participation, etc., and comments on the conceptualization and methodology of the study of the USSR and its implications for social sciences theory. References and statistical tables.
Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences
The work's major substantive themes revolve around problems of post-communist socio-economic transformations. Specifically, it explores post-communist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neo-liberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the post-communist transformation debate.
The Science and Passion of Communism
Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, which was originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party, is a political pamphlet written by German philosopher Karl Marx in 1848. The Communist Manifesto presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The Communist Manifesto summarises Karl Marx's theories about the nature of society and politics, and it also briefly features Karl Marx's ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In addition to his political ideologies, Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, jou...
Marxism and Realism
This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.
The Communism Buildup and the Social Sciences
The general meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, held on the 19th and 20th of October of 1962 in Moscow, was devoted to problems in the development of the social sciences and conditions of unfolding buildup of communism. It was said that, the twenty-second session and the Party program raise the theory of scientific communism to a new level. The highest mission and main task of the activities of Soviet science, it was said, are actively to participate in the creation of a new society and to aid the Party in the creative development and propaganda of Marxian-Leninian science, the vital basis of the Soviet structure.
Karl Marx on Society and Social Change
This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. The first section, "The Structure of Society," contains Marx's writings on the material basis of classes, the basis of the state, and the basis of the family. Among the writings included in this section are Marx's well-known summary from the Preface of A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy and his equally famous observations on the functional significance of religion in relation to politics. The secon...
