"Hoffman, John" <br/><br/>
The Gramscian Challenge: Coercion And Consent In Marxist-Political Theory. 

 - New York  Basil Blackwell.  1984 
 - 230 p. 
<br/><br/> How far does the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' differ from the 'dull compulsion' of capitalist social relations described in Das Kapital?<br/><br/>John Hoffman's focus on the twin concepts of coercion and consent allows him to come to grips with Gramsci's contribution to <br/>Marxist theory - particularly as revealed in the pages of his Prison Notebooks - and throws into sharp relief the break between <br/>classical Marxism and the political concepts of the Enlightenment. Hoffman's unique study of this central issue touches <br/>critically upon the insights of a wide range of writers in the Marxist tradition - Rosa Luxemburg; Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, <br/>Kautsky, and Mao as well as Gramsci and draws upon the world's real experience of socialism - examining, for example, the <br/>politics of the USSR and the experience of Popular Unity in Chile.<br/><br/>This is an important book for all those interested in Marxism and socialism, and will be of particular relevance to students of <br/>political theory, sociology and philosophy. <br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>085520771X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.5315 Hof