Marxists

By:

"Mills, C. Wright"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Middlesex; Penguin Books; 1982Description: 460 pISBN:

140206272

Subject(s):

Communism

DDC classification:

320.53 MIL

Summary: For the past hundred years the Marxists have posed the chief political alternative to capitalist society They have been successful revolutionaries in Russia, China, and Yugoslavia. They =re now the technicians and philosophers whose appeals to the under-developed nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America may be decisive. Here they speak for thems -slves - in documents by the leading theorists and rulers from Marx by way of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to Khrushchev, Mao Tse-tung, and even Che Guevara of Cuba. As a guide through thes8 theories C. Wright Mills, the controversial and outspoken author of The Power Elite and The Sociological Imagination, maps out the essential ideas of Marxism and examines them critically. He sketches their historical development - the divisions and revisions, the successes and failures - and points to the implications for the present and the future.

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For the past hundred years the Marxists have posed the chief political alternative to capitalist society
They have been successful revolutionaries in Russia, China, and Yugoslavia. They =re now the technicians and philosophers whose appeals to the under-developed nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America may be decisive. Here they speak for thems -slves - in documents by the leading theorists and rulers from Marx by way of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to Khrushchev,
Mao Tse-tung, and even Che Guevara of Cuba.
As a guide through thes8 theories C. Wright Mills, the controversial and outspoken author of The Power Elite and The Sociological Imagination, maps out the essential ideas of Marxism and examines them critically. He sketches their historical development - the divisions and revisions, the successes and failures - and points to the implications for the present and the future.

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