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Revisionism: Essays on the History of Marxist Ideas
Revisionism Essays on the History of Marxist Ideas Author:Leopold Labez, ed. Revisionism is the first book to deal comprehensively with the intellectual history of Marxist movements -- with the political efficacy of Marxist theory, modifications of it that were concealed, denied, or transformed into open "heresy," new rationalizations of the orthodox establishment, and frontal attacks on revisionist who challenged... more » that orthodoxy. The complex evolution of Marxist thought is viewed against its historical background and in relation to the theoreticians responsible for much of it: Bernstein, Trotsky, Bukharin, Lukacs, Ernst, Bloch, Luxemburg, and others. Various essays discuss the significance of and prospects for revisionism with the Communist bloc, as well as its effects on the "new left" outside the bloc. The authors, all experts in Communism's intellectual history, include Robert North, Zbynek Zeman, S.V. Utechin, Jugen Ruhle, Danial Bell, William E. Griffith, and Melvin Croan.« less