Karl Marx / / by Karl Korsch ; with an introduction by Michael Buckmiller.

• Author: Korsch, Karl, 1886-1961.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 85.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Notes: Originally published in 1938 in London by Chapman and Hall.

The republication of Karl Korsch's Karl Marx (1938) makes available to a new generation of readers the most concise account of Karl Marx's thought by one of the major figures of twentieth-century Western Marxism. Originally written for publication in a series on 'Modern Sociologists', Korsch's book sought to bring Marx's work to life for an audience of non-specialist readers. As Michael Buckmiller writes in his new introduction to the work, Korsch wanted his book to serve as a passport into the non-dogmatic sections of the American labour movement. The result is a bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx's thought, and a pungent history of 'Marxism' itself.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Marxism and Sociology -- 2 The Principle of Historical Specification -- 3 The Principle of Historical Specification (continued) -- 4 The Principle of Change -- 5 The Principle of Criticism -- 6 A New Type of Generalisation -- 7 Practical Implications -- 1 Marxism and Political Economy -- 2 From Political Economy to ‘Economics’ -- 3 From Political Economy to the Marxian Critique of Political Economy -- 4 Scientific versus Philosophical Criticism of Political Economy -- 5 Two Aspects of Revolutionary Materialism in Marx’s Economic Theory -- 6 The Economic Theory of Capital -- 7 The Fetishism of Commodities -- 8 The ‘Social Contract’ -- 9 The Law of Value -- 10 Common Misunderstandings of the Marxian Doctrine of Value and Surplus-Value -- 11 The Ultimate Aims of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy -- 1 The Materialist Conception of History -- 2 The Genesis of Historical Materialism -- 3 The Materialist Scheme of Society -- 4 Nature and Society -- 5 Productive Forces and Production-Relations -- 6 Base and Superstructure -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.