A Documentary Study of Hendrik De Man, Socialist Critic of Marxism / / Hendrik de Man.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Man, Hendrik de,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dodge, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1246
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

In this collection of excerpts from the essential works of Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), Peter Dodge reinstates in historical consciousness this pioneer sociologist of the European socialist movement and of labor in industrial society. Regarded before World War II as pre-eminent among socialist theoreticians, comparable to Marx himself, de Man fell into obscurity when his equivocal neutralist stance during the Occupation of his native Belgium undermined his political legitimacy. Yet de Man's observations on the class order of capitalist society, on the difficulties of establishing effective industrial democracy, and on the nature of industrial society may be even more relevant today than they were in early twentieth-century Europe. While largely accepting the Marxist analysis of capitalism, de Man also drew attention to the unacknowledged collapse of many of its assumptions. Insofar as capitalism evolved in ways that Marx had not foreseen, de Man partially attributes the fate of socialism to the limitations of Marxism's nineteenth-century mode of analysis. Selecting from the seventeen books, forty-odd brochures, and some four hundred articles that comprise de Man's works, the editor chooses those passages that are of primary significance for dc Man's intellectual development and for his contribution to social analysis. In addition to explanatory headnotes and an Introduction to de Man's life, the volume contains a selective bibliography of primary and secondary material.Originally published in 1979.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Era of Democracy -- 2. The Operation of Bourgeois Democracy -- 3. The Singularity of the Belgian Labor Movement -- 4. The Lesson of the War -- 5. Letter from America -- 6. Workers' Control -- 7. The Psychology of Socialism -- 8. The Crisis of Socialism -- 9. Joy in Work -- 10. Embourgeoisement of the Proletariat -- 11. Capitalism and Socialism -- 12. The Socialist Idea -- 13. The Plan du Travail -- 14. The Theses of Pontigny -- 15. Must One Sacrifice Peace to Freedom? -- 16. Democracy and the Frustration of Socialism -- 17. The Manifesto -- 18. The Age of Doom -- Selective Bibliography -- Index