Marxist Politics Engelska 2012

Marxist Politics The book deals with the main doctrines of Marxist Politics-thestate of the most powerful, economically dominant class throughthemedium of the state becomes the politically dominantclassacquiring the means of holding down and exploiting theoppressedclass, who, in turn, retaliate against this oppression.Clearly andsimply written, the book explores the views of classicalMarxistsalong with the findings of western and Analytical Marxists.It alsoshows a distinction between Marxist and non-Marxist viewsonpolitics. Their points of difference as well as their commonrootsare thus clearly accounted for. Marxist politics is acoherentsystem of ideas and theories of class, class struggle,party,revolution and the state developed in response to a series ofmajorand interrelated changes- the emergence of a capitalisteconomy,the rise of the modern nation-state and the development ofmodernscience, which transformed both the society and politics.This bookis intended to explore these ideas and theories.Particularemphasis has been putted on the ideas and views ofcritical Marxistin a separate chapter. Clearly and analyticallywritten, the bookincludes brief bibliographical details of majorindividual thinkersas well as an annotated bibliography which givesguidance to further reading