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&#...

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.