These essays by Hal Draper reflect his standing as a scholar, political journalist, and polemicist. The collection concentrates on what is of the greatest contemporary interest--his understanding of the meaning of socialism. In Draper's view, the divisions running through the history of the socialist movement between reformists and revolutionaries, authoritarians and democrats, were secondary; the important distinction was between those socialists who looked for some outside authority that would hand down salvation to the masses from above and those who saw the key to the reform of existing society in the struggle for self-emancipation from below. The first part contains Draper's pamphlet, The Two Souls of Socialism, for over twenty years the most widely read and succinct statement of Draper's radically different view of contemporary politics, and also several historical studies showing how Marx was the only major nineteenth-century thinker to defend unequivocally the democratic movement from below. The second section, entitled "In Defense of Radicalism," contains Draper's main articles on the New Left of the 1960s. The final section, "Marxism and Its Critics," contains several polemical articles in defense of the Marxist approach. The last article in this section, describing the evolution of Marx and Engels from typical "New Leftists" of the 1840s to advocates of socialism from below, is an early version of what became several chapters in Draper's five-volume study of Marx's political theory and activity, and provides a fitting conclusion to this volume.

Socialism from Below (Revolutionary)

Politics & Social Sciences

Draper, Hal

Politics & Government

Prometheus+books

Marx-Engels Chronicle: Day-By-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity: 001 (Marx-Engels Cyclopedia, Vol 1)

Schocken

Provides information on all of the writings of Socialists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Marx-Engels Register: A Complete Bibliography of Marx and Engels' Individual Writings (Marx-Engels Encyclopedia, Vol II)

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

The Marx-Engels Glossary (The Marx-Engels Cyclopedia)

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Part One: The State and Bureaucracy

History

Military

Monthly Review+press

This is the second installment of Hal Draper’s incomparable treatment of Marx’s political theory, policy, and practice. In forceful and readable language, Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. This series, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, represents an exhaustive and definitive treatment of Marx’s political theory, policy, and practice. Marx and Engels paid continuing attention to a host of problems of revolution, in addition to constructing their “grand theory.” All these political and social analyses are brought together in these volumes, as the author draws not only on the original writings of Marx and Engels but also on the sources that they used in formulating their ideas and the many commentaries on their published work. Draper’s series is a massive and immensely valuable scholarly undertaking. The bibliography alone will stand as a rich resource for years to come. Yet despite the scholarly treatment, the writing is direct, forceful, and unpedantic throughout, and will appeal to the beginning student as much as the advanced reader.

Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution Vol. II (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles, 13)

Volume I of Hal Draper’s definitive and masterful study of Marx’s political thought, which focuses on Marx’s attitude toward democracy, the state, intellectuals as revolutionaries, and much, much more.
This series, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, represents an exhaustive and definitive treatment of Marx’s political theory, policy, and practice. Marx and Engels paid continuing attention to a host of problems of revolution, in addition to constructing their “grand theory.” All these political and social analyses are brought together in these volumes, as the author draws not only on the original writings of Marx and Engels but also on the sources that they used in formulating their ideas and the many commentaries on their published work.
Draper’s series is a massive and immensely valuable scholarly undertaking. The bibliography alone will stand as a rich resource for years to come. Yet despite the scholarly treatment, the writing is direct, forceful, and unpedantic throughout, and will appeal to the beginning student as much as the advanced reader.

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 1: State and Bureaucracy

Business & Money

Economics

This is the first of 5 volumes on Marx's theory of revolution.

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 2: The Politics of Social Classes

Historical Study & Educational Resources

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In this third volume of his definitive study of Karl Marx's political thought, Hal Draper examines how Marx, and Marxism, have dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Writing with his usual wit and perception, Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves really meant by the term.

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 3: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution III

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