ABSTRACT
This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx’s teaching on his followers. He uses Marx to speak against the rigid dogmatism inherent in much of Marxism and concentrates on the interpretations of Marx’s work by Max Weber.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |53 pages
Antecedents
chapter |6 pages
The intellectual setting
chapter |3 pages
Marx's philosophical apprenticeship
chapter |7 pages
Modern capitalism
chapter |12 pages
The emergence of socialism
chapter |5 pages
The Hegelian dialectic
chapter |3 pages
Feuerbach's inversion of the dialectic
part |51 pages
Marx's thought
chapter |6 pages
The birth of historical materialism
chapter |6 pages
Economic base and ideological superstructure
chapter |3 pages
Historical sociology
chapter |8 pages
Political economy
chapter |6 pages
Towards the new society
chapter |12 pages
Contradictions in Marx
chapter |8 pages
Consequences of the contradictions
part |74 pages
Marx's influence