Main Currents of Marxism - Kolakowski Leszek
Main Currents of Marxism - Kolakowski Leszek From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly influential study of Marxism.…
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Main Currents of Marxism - Kolakowski Leszek
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly influential study of Marxism. Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. Written in exile, this "prophetic work" presents, according to the Library of Congress, "the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century".
In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. He reveals Marxism to be "the greatest fantasy of our century...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism". "Main Currents of Marxism" remains the indispensable book in its field.