© Don Milligan, Review of Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right, posted at www.doorway.ru, Ap. in this book of the hybrid theoretical creations of Marxism-Leninism and ‘diamat’,1 or of the organizational innovations of the Leninist Party and democratic centralism.2 The way in which Eagleton deals with the knotty problem. Terry Eagleton's book "Why Marx was Right" is a skillfully written, sometimes almost poetic, mis-titled political polemic. A more suitable title would capture Eagleton's remarkably well-informed effort to demonstrate that so much that is so often found horribly wrong with common misconceptions of Marxism is sharply at odds with everything that Marx ever www.doorway.ru by: As unfashionable as Marxism is these days, Terry Eagleton believes that the events of our time make a strong case for it. Why Marx Was Right is an argument on two fronts, one being that Karl Marx never advocated for much of what was attributed to him, and the other that what Karl Marx actually proposed is very appropriate for our age/5.
Why Marx Was Right. In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he. Why Marx Was Right. $ () In Stock. Enhance your purchase. One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy. In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on--he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx#39;s own thought these.
Eagleton is right to stress the centrality of democracy to Marxian communism, as well as explain so successfully the nature of free will within Marx and Engels's account of history. Terry Eagleton's book "Why Marx was Right" is a skillfully written, sometimes almost poetic, mis-titled political polemic. A more suitable title would capture Eagleton's remarkably well-informed effort to demonstrate that so much that is so often found horribly wrong with common misconceptions of Marxism is sharply at odds with everything that Marx ever wrote. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton's familiar wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.
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