Advancing Utopistics - The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (Hardcover)

Inspired by Immanuel Wallerstein's Utopistics, this book shows why utopistics cannot advance without sober and self-critical revisitations of its own intellectual heritage. Most sympathetic critiques of Marxism have targeted the shortcomings in its practices and/or theories (including its materialist conception of history), while regarding Marx's materialist dialectical method as sacred ground. Through a succinct analysis of the inner contradictions of the three practical, theoretical, and methodological tenets of classical Marxism, Tamdgidi argues that the root causes of Marxism's decline must be sought in Marx's method itself. This book concludes with a critical reexamination of the relation of Marxism and utopianism, arguing that Marx and Engels's debunking of utopianism in contrast to science had more of an ideological function than substantive merits, an ultimate error that set back the cause of advancing alternative strategies for radical social change for decades. A substantial methodological appendix is devoted to the exposition of a non-reductive, creative dialectical method more conducive to advancing utopistics.

General

Imprint:	Paradigm Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-59451-385-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59451-385-6
Barcode:	9781594513855

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