The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why Tapa dura - 2002

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0231124848 Author use a critical rethinking of the nature of democracy to reread Marx and argues that it is democracy - not Marxism - that is radical and revolutionary. 353pp.

U.S.A: Columbia University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Handsome volume in black cloth with copper titles on spine, clean, unmarked, tight & solid. In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism. but rather that it makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the United States and abroad. He contends that ot is democracy, not Marxism, that is radical and revolutionary and offers his readers a new way of thinking about democratic politics as a political ideal. Polirtical philosophy to make one think.353 pp with Notes and Index. 6.4 x 9.4 inches. 2002, Columbia University Press, New York.

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New. In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad. The author turns to the American and French Revolutions to uncover what was truly "revolutionary" about those events, arguing that two distinct styles of democratic life emerged, the implications of which were misinterpreted in light of the rise of communism. Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience a new way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that is radical and revolutionary, and that Marx could have seen this but did not. In Part I, Howard explores the attraction Marxism held for intellectuals, particularly French intellectuals, and he demonstrates how the critique of totalitarianism from a Marxist viewpoint… Leer más

Columbia Univ Pr, 2002. Hardcover. New. 368 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches.