Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism

by Russell Jacoby

Book Overview

Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521520177
• ISBN13: 9780521520171
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"