How did one man's critique of capitalism guide the course of modern
history? When he died in 1883, Karl Marx left behind an
intellectual legacy of formidable proportions and revolutionary
potential, yet one that exerted limited actual political, social,
or economic influence. The full force of his ideas did not come
into play for another generation, and only after they had been
appropriated and applied by some of Marxism's earliest proponents.
The history of Marxism, in other words, is the story of those who
brought Marx's ideas into play, transforming a sweeping but
fractious and occasionally abstruse view of historical and social
forces into a coherent plan of action. Christina Morina's
illuminating book focuses on the first generation of Marxists who
turned the work and ideas of one social theorist, one among many,
into one of the most powerful transnational political movements in
modern history. The Invention Of Marxism is therefore a group
portrait, featuring such figures as Rosa Luxemburg, Max Adler, Jean
Jaures, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, and Vladimir Lenin -
German, French, Russian, Czech - whose lives became dedicated to
interpreting and applying Marxist thought. They were the vehicles
by which his ideas were read, debated, and gradually adopted in
socialist movements across Europe. Morina's fascinating book
therefore reconstructs the beginnings of Marxism through the
individual politicization of a group of intellectuals who made it
their purpose in life to solve the 'social question', exploring the
nexus between their intellectual constructs and social and
political reality. The Invention of Marxism shows how what started
as a theory of capitalism grew into a fully-fledged political
philosophy and platform, one that shaped the century that followed
Marx's death. In short, it reveals how an idea first conquered
these individuals and then the world.
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