• Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia Andrzej Walicki
    ISBN: 0804731640
    Год издания: 1997
    Язык: Английский

    The aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its development in the history of Marxist thought, including Marxism-Leninism, and to explain how it as possible for it to be transformed at the height of its influence into a legitimization of totalitarian practices. The relevance of the Marxist conception of freedom for an understanding of communist totalitarianism derives from the historical fact that the latter came into being as a the result of a conscious, strenuous striving to realize the former. The…

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