In this critical survey, the author, who is one of the best informed and most perceptive amongst Marxist scholars, examines both Marx's positive ethics of the truly human man freed from alienation and Marx's materialist critique of moralities as class-bound ideologies. He considers the contributions of Marx's disciples, in the Soviet Union and the western world, and argues that Marxism has conflated a number of ethical positions -- the ethics of self-realisation, utilitarianism, ethical relativism, evolutionary ethics and an unexamined ethic of self-determination and cooperation. Whatever its defects may be, Marxism has helped to point the way to a sociology of morals and to an understanding of the connection between man and society.

Marxism and Ethics (New Studies in Ethics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kamenka, Eugene

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The spread and increasing power of bureaucracy - the accelerated growth of large-scale, centralized administrative structures - is one of the most noticed and discussed phenomena of our time. It now cuts across the distinction between capitalism and communism, democracy and dictatorship, "the Western world" and the organized despotisms of empires and Oriental "agro-managerial" societies. It bids fair to dominate our future, but it has also shaped our past. The concept of "bureaucracy" is as important as its uses are varied, unexamined and confused. In this book, separate chapters describe the ancient bureaucracies of Egypt, China, Mesopotamia and, later, in the New World, the development and perception of bureaucracy in Europe, capitalism and bureaucracy, socialism and bureaucracy in the the post-industrial world. The work seeks both historical understanding and conceptual clarification - it is concerned with bureaucracy as a major and lasting social phenomenon.

Bureaucracy (New Perspectives on the Past)

History

Americas

Blackwell Pub.

Karl Marx: 2

Viking Adult

The philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach

Routledge & K.Paul

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, Revised Edition

Routledge and Kegan Paul

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism

Hassell Street Press

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, first published in 1962 and corrected and revised for a 1972 edition, examines carefully and critically the origin, precise nature and subsequent role of Marx’s ethical beliefs. Drawing freely on Marx’s still largely untranslated philosophical works and drafts the author elicits the ethical presuppositions with which Marx began. He then examines the intellectual development that made Marx a Communist and seeks to clarify the place of Marx’s ethic in his mature, ‘materialist’ work. Professor Kamenka distinguishes sharply between the critical, ethical views of Marx and the inept, conventional applications of his doctrine by Engels. He appraises the ‘ethics’ of the Communist Party and traces the development of the moral and legal theory in the Soviet Union. He concludes by subjecting Marxism as a whole to a radical, ethical and philosophical criticism for which Marx himself laid some of the foundations.

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism (RLE Marxism) (Routledge Library Editions: Marxism)

Routledge

Ethical Foundations of Marxism (Classic Reprint)

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