Marx's Resurrection of Aristotle

by Norman Levine

Book Overview

This book seeks to show how Karl Marx's vision of communism was a continuation of Aristotle's classical humanist philosophy. Challenging the Engelsian distortion of Marx, it presents a negation of previous interpretations of Marx which present him in materialist terms. Engels proposed a picture of the highest stage of communist society as an economic egalitarianism, a vision which became an axiom of Leninist-Stalinist-Soviet Communism. By contrast,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030570371
• ISBN13: 9783030570378
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"