• Introduction: Living in the tension
• Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)
• Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)
• Reinventing the people (inclusion/exclusion)
• Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)
• Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneity/structure)
• A Socratic mob (expertise/mass opinion)
• New world order (local/global)
• A ruin or a habitation (present/future)
• Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to perennial midwives.

"What is democracy, really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a 'New Civil Rights Leader' by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise. The problems lie deeper than any one election cycle. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy--fully inclusive and completely egalitarian--has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with former prime ministers and such leading thinkers as Cornel West and Wendy Brown, Taylor invites us to reexamine the term. Is democracy a means or an end, a process or a set of desired outcomes? What if those outcomes, whatever they may be--peace, prosperity, equality, liberty, an engaged citizenry--can be achieved by nondemocratic means? In what areas of life should democratic principles apply? If democracy means rule by the people, what does it mean to rule and who counts as the people? Democracy's inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, [this book] offers a better understanding of what is possible, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it remains worth striving for."--Dust jacket.

• Acknowledgments viii
• 1 What Is to Be Done? 1
• 2 What Democracy Means 29
• 3 Becoming Democratic 75
• 4 Becoming Active 92
• 5 Revolutionary Connections 122
• 6 Conclusion 143 References 159 Index 168.
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Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revivify the political fortunes of the left.* Details strategies for reanimating the fortunes of the political left* Features in-depth analysis of key political theorists such as Gramsci, Lefebvre, Ranciere, Deleuze & Guattari, and Hardt & Negri* Includes empirical analysis of recent instances of collective action* Advocates the reframing of democracy as a personal and collective struggle to discover the best in ourselves and others.
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• [1]. Apolitics and Politics
• [2]. Liveable Interruption
• [3]. Forms of Experience.

Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.
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• Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy-- From Marxism to Poststructuralism-- From Structuralism to Poststructuralism-- On Language and Text-- On Structure and Subject-- On Image and Form-- On Economy and Institution-- On Resistance and Limit-- Archaeology and Genealogy-- Deconstruction-- Schizoanalysis-- Ecriture feminine-- Poststructuralism and its Critics-- From Poststructuralism to Postcolonialism-- Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis-- Receptions (Cultural Theory)-- Receptions (Film Theory)-- Poststructuralism as French Theory-- Poststructuralism: The Geography of its Dispersal.
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Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what it's achieved and where it's going. Written by experts in their field, this important reference volume surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigary, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism. It explores the emergence of poststructuralism, from its origins in Marxism and structuralism to its global academic impact. It includes chapters that are arranged by theme and topic, showing which ideas captivated poststructuralist thinkers. It looks at the criticisms of poststructuralism. It investigates the new trends and recent debates within and around poststructuralism.
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This straightforward introduction to radical political economy strikes a balance between breadth and depth and was written for the beginning student and others interested in a relatively short text on radical economics.
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'A beautiful book ... it is a particular delight when someone writes simply, clearly and briefly about topics on which they have worked much and thought deeply' - Spokesman This extremely popular introduction to Marxism is written by Ernest Mandel whose prolific writings range from the heights of economic theory to polemical works of study of concrete political, economic and cultural situations. The great strength of this book lies in the solidity of its structure. Without pretending that in 200 pages all problems can be plumbed to their depths, this structure permits Mandel to give straight answers on an amazingly wide range of topics.
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• 1. Concerning method and the study of political violence
• 2. Insurrection as history from Guy Fawkes to black blocs
• 3. Insurrection as a post-millennial, clandestine, network of cells
• 4. Insurrection as warfare, terrorism and revolutionary design
• 5. Insurrection as theory, text, and strategy
• 6. Insurrection as values-driven theory and action
• 7. Insurrection as anti-securitization communication References Index
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This story explores the history, ideas, and strategies of insurrectionary anarchism. This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiques, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion. -- .
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• Introduction Part One: The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism To Neoliberalism - And Beyond
• 1. Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian `Full Employment' Era
• 2. Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism
• 3. That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain - and the British Labour Party - Fell into the Monetarist Trap (late 1960s-late 1970s)
• 4. The Paris Consensus: the French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe (1981-1995)
• 5. The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-driven Project
• 6. Apres elle, le deluge: Are we Entering a Post-neoliberal Age? Part Two: A Progressive Strategy For The 21st Century
• 7. Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty
• 8. A Currency-issuing Government is Not Like a Household: an Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory
• 9. I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better Than a Basic Income
• 10. We Have a (Central) Plan: the Case for Re-nationalisation Conclusions Notes Index.
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The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing the West all involve a yearning for a relic of the past: national sovereignty. In response to these challenging times, economist William Mitchell and political theorist Thomas Fazi reconceptualise the nation state as a vehicle for progressive change. They show how despite the ravages of neoliberalism, the state still contains resources for democratic control of a nation's economy and finances. The populist turn provides an opening to develop an ambitious but feasible left political strategy. Reclaiming the State offers an urgent, provocative and prescient political analysis of our current predicament, and lays out a comprehensive strategy for revitalising progressive economics in the 21st century.
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• Preface to the English Edition Chapter One The 1860s and 1870s: Marxism rejected, and the humus of Marxism 1.1 The democratic antithesis 1.2. The anarchist antithesis Chapter Two The Marxism of the 1880s: the characteristics of a transition 2.1. Socialist culture: sociology 2.2. Socialist culture: political economy Chapter Three The Marxism of the 1890s: Foundation - and Orthodoxy? 3.1. The `Partito marxista' 3.2. Between ideology, science, utopia and religio 3.3. `The anatomy of civil society' 3.4. The end-of-century Marxist corpus Chapter Four Historical Materialism 4.1. What philosophy? What philosophy of history? 4.2. Materialism and a `philosophy for socialism' Chapter Five Marxism and Reformism 5.1. Did reformism have theoretical roots? On the question of `catastrophism' 5.2. Turati, the `Marxist' and `reformist' 5.3. The economic theory of the workers' movement 5.4. The articulations of non-Marxist reformism, the returns of history, and again on reformist Marxism Chapter Six Marxism and Revolutionary Syndicalism 6.1. Did syndicalism have roots in end-of-the-century `revisionism'? 6.2. Early definitions of a `Left'-Marxism 6.3. Enrico Leone's and Arturo Labriola's Marx in the `high' period of syndicalist theory 6.4. Marxism and elitism in the universe of `minor' syndicalist intellectuals 6.5. De hominis dignitate. A workers' syndicalist Marxism? La Scintilla in Ferrara and Il Martello in Piombino References Index.
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In The History of Italian Marxism, Paolo Favilli offers an articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx's ideas - and 'Marxism' as a doctrinal 'system' - were received in Italy from the time of the First International up till the eve of the First World War. Rejecting any linear understanding of the relation between Marx's texts and the assumption of Marxism as the ideology of the burgeoning workers' movement, Favilli explores the growth of different forms of Marxist culture through the period of the Paris Commune, the late-nineteenth-century debate on 'revisionism', and the rise of revolutionary syndicalism. Asking in each case whether 'Marxism' meant a science, an ideology, a way of doing politics, a utopia, a myth or a religion, Favilli goes on to assess which of these 'Marxisms' died with, and which have survived, the 'crisis' at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface to the English edition. First published in Italian as Storia del marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra, FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.
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• Translator's Note Introduction by Fred Moseley Chapter One: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit
• 1. Surplus-Value and Profit [2. Cost Price]
• 3. Economy in the Use of Constant Capital
• 4. The Effect of Changes in Raw Material Prices
• 5. Release and Tying-up of Capital, Depreciation and Appreciation, Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital
• 6. The Influence of Changes in Circulation Time, its Shortening or Lengthening (and also changes in the means of communication connected with this) on the Rate of Profit
• 7. Profit (as it appears to the bourgeois) Chapter Two: The Transformation of Profit into Average Profit
• 1. Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit
• 2. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Profit) and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production
• 3. The Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit.
• 4. The Effects of a General Increase or Reduction (Fall) in Wages on the Prices of Production of the Different Commodities
• 5. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation Supplement on Prices of Production Chapter Three: The Law of the Tendential Fall in the General Rate of Profit with the Advance of Capitalist Production Chapter Four: The Transformation of Commodity Capital and Money Capital into Merchant's Capital (Commodity-Dealing Capital and Money-Dealing Capital)
• 1. Commodity-Dealing Capital (Commercial Profit)
• 2. Commercial Profit and its Characteristics
• 3. The Turnover of Mercantile Capital. Prices
• 4. Money-Dealing Capital
• 5. [no title]
• Chapter Five: The Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. (Industrial or Commercial Profit). Interest-Bearing Capital
• 1. [Interest-Bearing Capital]
• 2. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. The Natural Rate of Interest
• 3. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
• 4. The Externalisation of Surplus-Value and the Capital Relation in General in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
• 5. Credit. Fictitious Capital
• 6. Pre-Bourgeois Relations Chapter Six: The Transformation of Surplus Profit into Ground-Rent (a) Introduction (c) Absolute Ground-Rent (b) Differential Rent
• [The First Form of Differential Rent]
• [The Second Form of Differential Rent] Chapter Seven: The Revenues and their Sources
• 1. The Trinity Formula
• 2. [On the Analysis of the Production Process]
• 3. The Illusion Created by Competition
• 4. Relations of Production and Distribution
• 5. Classes Appendix Bibliography Index.
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Marx's only full draft of Volume III of Capital was written in the Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865. The Volume III that we know was heavily edited by Engels. It has been a long-standing question in Marxian scholarship whether or not there are significant differences between Marx's original manuscript and Engels's edited version. Marx's manuscript was published for the first time in German in 1992 in the Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe, Section II, Volume 4.2, but this important manuscript has not previously been translated into English. The publication of this English translation of Marx's original manuscript is thus an important event in Marxian scholarship. English-speaking Marxist scholars can finally compare Engels's Volume III with Marx's original manuscript and evaluate for themselves the significance of the differences.
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This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to the novel are the romances of the two leading men, a Toronto professor and an American reporter, who become involved with farmer's daughters.
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• Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction
• PART I: The communist life cycle: the early years
• 1 In the home: communist mothercraft and child rearing
• 2 Into the Party structure: the communist children movement
• 3 A bright and purposeful life: youth and the Young Communist League PART II: The communist life cycle: adulthood
• 4 A single communist personality?: communist couples and Red families
• 5 Being in a familiar place: the life of the adult activist PART III: The communist life cycle: Shaping communists
• 6 Tending the communist body: the quest for physical fitness
• 7 Communist life style: fostering correct habits, good behaviour, and right ways of living
• 8 Communists at play
• 9 Culture from below: a culture for proletarians PART IV: The communist life cycle: end of the cycle
• 10 In memoriam Afterword Select Bibliography Index
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Based on extensive use of primary evidence, this is the first study of interwar British communism to set the communist experience within the framework of the life cycle. Communism offered a complete identity that could reach into virtually all aspects of life; the Party sought influence even over members' personal conduct, moral codes, health and diet, personal hygiene, and aesthetic judgements. The British Communist Party (CPGB) sought to address the communist experience through all of the principal phases of the life cycle, and its reach therefore extended to take in children, youth, and the various aspects of the adult experience, including marital and kinship relations. The book also considers the contention that the Communist Party functioned as a 'political religion' for some joiners who opted to enter the congregation of the communist devoted. -- .
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• Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory Part I. Marx's Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism
• 1. The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts
• 2. The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science
• 3. Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism
• Part II. Dialectical Knowledge in Motion: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Marx's Mature Critique of Political Economy
• 4. The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method
• 5. The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx's Dialectical Exposition in Capital
• 6. The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique
• 7. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form
• 8. Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject
• 9. By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity Bibliography Index.
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In Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, which has turned into the very alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital), is to develop, as its own immanent determination, the constitution of the (self-abolishing) working class as a revolutionary subject. A crucial element in this intellectual endeavour is the focus on the intrinsic connection between the specifically dialectical form of social science and its radical transformative content.
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"Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.... Volume 2, bibliography, is as important a contribution as the essays. Hereafter, students of practically all phases of American life will turn to it for help and guidance."--U.S. Quarterly Book Review. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Prologue: The Making of a Philosopher
• Part One. A Social Gospel (1882-1904)
• 1. The Hegelian Bacillus
• 2. Organic Democracy
• 3. Chicago Pragmatism
• 4. No Mean City
• Part Two. Progressive Democracy (1904-1918)
• 5. Reconstructing Philosophy
• 6. Democracy and Education
• 7. The Politics of War
• Part Three. Toward the Great Community (1918-1929)
• 8. The Politics of Peace
• 9. The Phantom Public
• 10. Philosophy and Democracy
• Part Four. Democrat Emeritus(1929-1952)
• 11. Consummatory Experience
• 12. Socialist Democracy
• 13. Their Morals and Ours
• 14. Keeping the Common Faith
• Epilogue: The Wilderness and the Promised Land
• Bibliographical Note
• Index

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America's most important philosopher, Dewey made his views known both through his writings and through such controversial episodes as his leadership of educational reform at the turn of the century; his support of American intervention in World War I and his leading role in the Outlawry of War movement after the war; and his participation in both radical and anti-communist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey's thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biography, combining readings of his major works with an engaging account of key chapters in his activism. Westbrook pays particular attention to the impact upon Dewey of conversations and debates with contemporaries from William James and Reinhold Niebuhr to Jane Addams and Leon Trotsky. Countering prevailing interpretations of Dewey's contribution to the ideology of American liberalism, he discovers a more unorthodox Dewey--a deviant within the liberal community who was steadily radicalized by his profound faith in participatory democracy. Anyone concerned with the nature of democracy and the future of liberalism in America--including educators, moral and social philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians--will find John Dewey and American Democracy indispensable reading.

"In Karl Polanyi in Dialogue, Nancy Fraser meets Karl Polanyi and the New Left meets the Old Left. An important German researcher specialising in Polanyi (author of the classic The Great Transformation), editor Michael Brie grapples with a time when the Left worldwide is on the retreat: while the Old Left lies in ruin, the New Left faces a determined neoliberal attack on the social state and social rights. Meanwhile, an aggressive New Right is taking the streets, the parliaments and even governmental power. Amidst the vertiginous tension of such a crisis, this book urgently argues for an alliance of socialist liberals and libertarian communists to reunite contemporary campaigns for recognition, difference and human dignity with more traditional struggles for social welfare and economic democracy. The book powerfully reinterprets Polanyi's thought for present times and includes two articles by the classic thinker which have been translated into English for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
• Introduction
• PART TWO: OVERVIEW OF AUSTRO-MARXIST THEORETICIANS
• Max Adler Otto Bauer Karl Renner Friedrich Adler Otto Neurath Rudolf Hilferding PART THREE: THE TRANSLATED THEORETICAL TEXTS OF THE AUSTRO-MARXISTS Max Adler
• `The New Concept of Sociation', in Lehrbuch der Materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung (1930)
• `The Social A Priori', in The Enigma of Society (1936)
• `The "Given" as Living Consciousness', in The Enigma of Society (1936)
• `The Activity of Consciousness', in The Enigma of Society (1936)
• `Social Being and Social Science', in The Enigma of Society (1936)
• `Marxism and Anarchism', in Die Staatsauffassimg des Marxismus, Marx-Studien, Vol. 4, Part 2, Chapters XV, XVI, XVII, and XVIII (1922)
• `Why We Are Not Understood', in Die Staatsauffassimg des Marxismus, Marx-Studien, Vol. 4, Part 2,
• Chapter XIX (1922)
• `Belief as an Epistemological Concept', in Das Soziologishe in Kants Erkenntniskritik: Ein Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Naturalismus und Kritizismus (1924)
• `The Given in Ethics', in Das Soziologishe in Kants Erkenntniskritik: Ein Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Naturalismus und Kritizismus (1924) Otto Bauer
• `The Concept of Nation', in The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy (1907)
• `Remarks on the Question of Nationalities', Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXV (1908)
• `Marxism and Ethics', Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXIII (1906)
• `Intervals in History', Der Kampf, Vol. 3 (1910)
• `The Equilibrium of Class Strengths', Der Kampf, Vol. 17 (1924)
• `The Transition from the Capitalist to the Socialist Society', in Einfuhrung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre (1927-8) Karl Renner
• (Synopticus), State and Nation: A Constitutional Investigation of the Possible Principles of a Solution and the Juridical Prerequisites of a Law of Nationalities (1899)
• `Legal Institutions and Economic Structure', in The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions [Die Rechtsinstitute des Privatrechts und Ihre Soziale Funktion] (1929 [1904])
• `Economic Democracy: The Programme of Economic Self-Help Among the Working Classes', Der Kampf, Vol. 19 (1926)
• `Economic Democracy', Der Kampf, Vol. 19 (1926) Friedrich Adler
• `Friedrich Engels and Natural Science', Die Neue Zeit, Vol. XXIV (1906-7)
• `Why do we need Theories? (originally in Der Kampf, March, 1909)', in The Renewal of the International [Die Erneuerung der Internationale] (1919) Otto Neurath
• `Sociology as Physicalism [Soziologie im Physikalismus]', in Erkenntnis, Vol. 2 (1931)
• `Protocol Statements' [`Protokollsatze'], Erkenntnis, Vol. 3 (1932-3) Rudolf Hilferding
• `Preface', Finance Capital, A Study of the Latest Development of Capitalism (1910)
• `The Work Community of the Classes?', Der Kampf, Vol. 8 (1915) Bibliography Index.
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This volume offers the essential theoretical thought of the Austro-Marxist thinkers Otto Bauer, Max Adler, Karl Renner, Friedrich Adler, Rudolf Hilferding, and Otto Neurath over the span of their Austrian Social-Democratic careers, from the decades before World War I until the mid-1930s. Austro-Marxist theoretical perspectives were conceived as social scientific tools for the issues that faced the development of socialism in their time. The relevance of their thought for the contemporary world inheres in this understanding.
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