Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic BreakthroughAccording to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presenting the first major study of the two thinkers in the past twenty years and the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials and their attitudes and policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women's equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political and party organizing, and the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant and underdeveloped country like late-nineteenth-century Russia. |
Contents
| 14 | |
Chapter | 29 |
Chapter Three | 57 |
The Return to Germany | 64 |
The June Revolution | 74 |
Chapter Four | 83 |
The Lessons of Revolution | 102 |
Chapter | 141 |
Chapter Eight | 197 |
Chapter Nine | 223 |
Chapter | 253 |
Conclusions | 285 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography | 359 |
Index | 365 |
Chapter Seven | 169 |
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Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough August H. Nimtz Limited preview - 2000 |
Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough August H. Nimtz Jr. No preview available - 2000 |
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