An Essay on the Need to Revise Marx' and Engels' Historical Materialism
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This book argues that apart from a number of ambiguities and inner tensions, Marx' and Engels' historical materialism suffers from a misconception of the nature and motive power of historical development and transformations on which their unwarranted confidence in the inevitability of the transition from capitalism to socialism and eventually classless communist society is based; and from a consequent failure to address the problems of accomplishing this transition - the desirability of which is not denied. No finished alternative is offered, but some elements of a better version retaining the critical and revolutionary edge of Marx' and Engels' own are suggested. Others doubtlessly remain to be thought out.
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Ib Gram-Jensen
Ib Gram-Jensen is a historian who graduated as an MA in history and social studies from the University of Copenhagen. He lives in Denmark. Apart from An Essay on the Need to Revise Marx' and Engels' Historical Materialism, his publications include Experience and Historical Materialism: Five Argumentative Essays (2020), Structure, Agency and Theory: Contributions to Historical Materialism and the Analysis of Classes, State and Bourgeois Power in Advanced Capitalist Societies, vol. I-III (2021), A Critique of Mau: Mute Compulsion and Other Essays: Seven More Argumentative Essays (2023) and A Revised Historical Materialism: Three More Argumentative Essays (2024).
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Historisk materialisme Marxisme og kommunisme klasseanalyse Politisk teori Idéhistorie