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Marx's dream : from capitalism to communism / Tom Rockmore.

Rockmore, Tom, 1942- author.
2018
B3305.M74 R573 2018eb
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Title
Marx's dream : from capitalism to communism / Tom Rockmore.
Author
Rockmore, Tom, 1942- author.
ISBN
9780226554662 (electronic book)
022655466X (electronic book)
9780226554525
022655452X
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)
Call Number
B3305.M74 R573 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
335.4092
Summary
Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view of Marx in three key ways. First, he shows that the concern with the relation of theory to practice - reflected in Marx's famous claim that philosophers only interpret the world, while the point is to change it - arose as early as Socrates, and has been central to philosophy in its best moments. Second, he seeks to free Marx from his unsolicited Marxist embrace in order to consider his theory on its own merits. And, crucially, Rockmore relies on the normal standards of philosophical debate, without the special pleading to which Marxist accounts too often resort. Marx's failures as a thinker, Rockmore shows, lie less in his diagnosis of industrial capitalism's problems than in the suggested remedies, which are often unsound. Only a philosopher of Rockmore's stature could tackle a project this substantial, and the results are remarkable: a fresh Marx, unencumbered by doctrine and full of insights that remain salient today.
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Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view of Marx in three key ways. First, he shows that the concern with the relation of theory to practice - reflected in Marx's famous claim that philosophers only interpret the world, while the point is to change it - arose as early as Socrates, and has been central to philosophy in its best moments. Second, he seeks to free Marx from his unsolicited Marxist embrace in order to consider his theory on its own merits. And, crucially, Rockmore relies on the normal standards of philosophical debate, without the special pleading to which Marxist accounts too often resort. Marx's failures as a thinker, Rockmore shows, lie less in his diagnosis of industrial capitalism's problems than in the suggested remedies, which are often unsound. Only a philosopher of Rockmore's stature could tackle a project this substantial, and the results are remarkable: a fresh Marx, unencumbered by doctrine and full of insights that remain salient today.
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Introduction
Part 1: On Marx's theory of practice. On culture and civilization ; Plato's Republic and human flourishing ; Rousseau's problem ; On property, private property, and human flourishing ; Hegel, recognition, and the modern state ; Hegel on human flourishing in the modern state ; Hegel and economic flourishing ; Marx's critique of Hegel's Elements of the philosophy of right ; Marx on theory, practice, and changing the world ; On the Marxian subject ; Feuerbach, Fichte, and the Marxian subject ; On the Marxian alternative to modern political economy ; Marxian political economy as economic constructivism ; Marx on human flourishing and communism ; Human flourishing as social freedom
Part 2: Marx and Marxism on materialism, Feuerbach, and Hegel. What is materialism? ; Materialism in Marx's early writings ; Engels's (Marxist) view of Feuerbach ; Materialism, idealism, and The german ideology ; Marx's (non-Marxist) view of Feuerbach ; Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach" ; Vico, materialism, and constructivism in Capital ; Materialism, dialectic, and the second afterword to Capital ; Excursus on the reflection theory of knowledge ; On Hegel's dialectical theory of cognition ; Marx on Hegelian dialectic
Part 3: On the practice of Marx's theory, or the transition from capitalism to communism. 1. Transition through the revolutionary proletariat ; 2. Transition through economic crisis ; 3. Transition through politics ; 4. Transition through critical social theory
Conclusion: Marx's dream.

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