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Marx's Dream - From Capitalism to Communism (Hardcover)
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Marx's Dream - From Capitalism to Communism (Hardcover)
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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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