Published in 1933, at a time of widespread unemployment and bank
failures, this book by the young Sidney Hook received great
critical acclaim and established his reputation as a brilliant
expositor of ideas. By "revolutionary interpretation" Hook meant
quite literally that Marx's main objective was to stimulate
revolutionary opposition to class society.
Hook later abandoned the revolutionary views expressed in this
volume, but he never abandoned his warm positive views of Marx as a
thinker and a fighter for freedom. He eventually concluded that
20th century history had proved both him and Marx wrong about the
necessity of revolutionary means to achieve their mutual social
goals. But, says his son Ernest B. Hook in an introduction, this
concession of error "he did not see . . . as an admission of
intellectual weakness, but the natural position of a reasonable
person when, in the light of observation and experience, he
concludes he has erred."
This expanded edition makes readily available for scholars an
influential work long out of print and provides critical insight
into the intellectual development of one of the 20th-century's
great thinkers.
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