Download or read book The Dictatorship of the Proletariat written by John Ehrenberg and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.
Download or read book Marx s Proletariat RLE Marxism written by David W. Lovell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book, first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the sources and development of Marx’s concept of the proletariat. It contends that this was not only a crucial element in Marx’s theory but a significant departure in socialist thought. By examining this concept in detail the book uncovers a major contradiction in Marxian thought: although the proletariat is assigned a momentous task it is chiefly depicted as the class of suffering which is why, historically, it has preferred security to enterprise.
Download or read book The Surrogate Proletariat written by Gregory J. Massell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attempted modernization of Central Asia by the central Soviet government in the 1920's was a dramatic confrontation between radical, determined, authoritarian communists and a cluster of traditional Moslem societies based on kinship, custom, and religion. The Soviet authorities were determined to undermine the traditional social order through the destruction of existing family structures and worked to achieve this aspect of revolution through the mobilization of women. Gregory J. Massell's study of the interaction between central power and local traditions concentrates on the development of female roles in revolutionary modernization. Women in Moslem societies were segregated, exploited, and degraded; they were, therefore, a structural weak point in the traditional order—a surrogate proletariat. Through this potentially subversive group, it was believed, intense conflicts could be generated within society which would lead to its disintegration and subsequent reconstitution. The first part of the book isolates the trends that made Central Asia vulnerable to outside intervention, and examines the factors that impelled the communist elites to turn to Moslem women as potential revolutionary allies. In the second part, Professor Massed analyzes Soviet perceptions of female inferiority and of the revolutionary potential of Moslem women. Part Three is an account of specific Soviet actions based on these assumptions. The fourth part of the book deals with the variety of responses these actions evoked. Originally published in 1974. 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.
Download or read book The Dangerous Class written by Clyde Barrow and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx and Engels’ concept of the “lumpenproletariat,” or underclass (an anglicized, politically neutral term), appears in The Communist Manifesto and other writings. It refers to “the dangerous class, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society,” whose lowly status made its residents potential tools of the capitalists against the working class. Surprisingly, no one has made a substantial study of the lumpenproletariat in Marxist thought until now. Clyde Barrow argues that recent discussions about the downward spiral of the American white working class (“its main problem is that it is not working”) have reactivated the concept of the lumpenproletariat, despite long held belief that it is a term so ill-defined as not to be theoretical. Using techniques from etymology, lexicology, and translation, Barrow brings analytical coherence to the concept of the lumpenproletariat, revealing it to be an inherent component of Marx and Engels’ analysis of the historical origins of capitalism. However, a proletariat that is destined to decay into an underclass may pose insurmountable obstacles to a theory of revolutionary agency in post-industrial capitalism. Barrow thus updates historical discussions of the lumpenproletariat in the context of contemporary American politics and suggests that all post-industrial capitalist societies now confront the choice between communism and dystopia.
Download or read book Dictatorship of Proletariat written by Hal Draper and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturing the Proletariat written by John Lear and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Mexico’s revolution, artists played a fundamental role in constructing a national identity centered on working people and were hailed for their contributions to modern art. Picturing the Proletariat examines three aspects of this artistic legacy: the parallel paths of organized labor and artists’ collectives, the relations among these groups and the state, and visual narratives of the worker. Showcasing forgotten works and neglected media, John Lear explores how artists and labor unions participated in a cycle of revolutionary transformation from 1908 through the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). Lear shows how middle-class artists, radicalized by the revolution and the Communist Party, fortified the legacy of the prerevolutionary print artisan José Guadalupe Posada by incorporating modernist, avant-garde, and nationalist elements in ways that supported and challenged unions and the state. By 1940, the state undermined the autonomy of radical artists and unions, while preserving the image of both as partners of the “institutionalized revolution.” This interdisciplinary book explores the gendered representations of workers; the interplay of prints, photographs, and murals in journals, in posters, and on walls; the role of labor leaders; and the discursive impact of the Spanish Civil War. It considers “los tres grandes”—Rivera, Siquieros, and Orozco—while featuring lesser-known artists and their collectives, including Saturnino Herrán, Leopoldo Méndez, Santos Balmori, and the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR). The result is a new perspective on the art and politics of the revolution.
Download or read book The Proletarian Dream written by Sabine Hake and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspired the fantasies, desires, and attachments necessary for transforming the working class into a historical subject and an emotional community. This book reconstructs this complicated and contradictory process through the countless treatises, essays, memoirs, novels, poems, songs, plays, paintings, photographs, and films produced in the name of the proletariat. The Proletarian Dream reads these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant—and even more important, how it felt—to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction. By emphasizing the formative role of the aesthetic, the eighteen case studies offer a new perspective on working-class culture as a oppositional culture. Such a new perspective is bound to shed new light on the politics of emotion during the main years of working-class mobilizations and as part of more recent populist movements and cultures of resentment.
Download or read book On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat written by Étienne Balibar and published by Verso Trade. This book was released on 1977 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The Suicide of the Proletariat written by Jean de Climont and published by Editions d Assailly. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is a presentation and a critic of the dialectical philosophies from Hegel, Marx and Engels up to now. First are reviewed the economical and economical aspects, including both failing theses of capital accumulation and impoverishment. The Bourdieu’s interpretation of the Weber’s approach is questioned. It is explained how the proletariat went to suicide. Then take place a review of the main principles of the dialectical materialism, including definition of the category concept and the related negation postulate. Finally are analyzed the concepts of alienation and universalization within the marxist doctrine.
Download or read book Black Milwaukee written by Joe William Trotter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
Download or read book Marx s Proletariat RLE Marxism written by David W. Lovell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book, first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the sources and development of Marx’s concept of the proletariat. It contends that this was not only a crucial element in Marx’s theory but a significant departure in socialist thought. By examining this concept in detail the book uncovers a major contradiction in Marxian thought: although the proletariat is assigned a momentous task it is chiefly depicted as the class of suffering which is why, historically, it has preferred security to enterprise.
Download or read book The State and Revolution written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proletariat Power written by C. Christopher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of this compilation of creative scripts is to harness the reader’s imagination coupled with his or her own similar experiences, with the intent to productively heal, mend and procure a healthy continuance of dreams and aspirations. While scaling through political views, social views and worldviews, there are also relationship emotions to contend with—love, sorrow, forgiveness, etc.—as we all develop through each phase of these thoughts and processes throughout life. The conclusion of Proletariat Power: The Revolution Begins is for the reader to break the monotony of mass media–fed thought and to become self-aware and conscious enough to become independent, imaginative and creative in thought. The true content of Proletariat Power resides in each of us with an emphatic potential to revolutionize our culture, society and processes from one individual to another. What will Proletariat Power: The Revolution Begins inspire you to do? Whatever it is, you can accomplish it with exceptional success. Proletariat Power: The Revolution Begins is within your grasp to extend.
Download or read book The Militant Proletariat written by Austin Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialism and the proletariat.--The militant proletariat.--What is a union?--Politics.
Download or read book Reworking China s Proletariat written by Sally Sargeson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism. Sally Sargeson presents a new theoretical analysis of the impact of capitalism and state power on social identities, employment conditions and workplace organization. Her study draws upon an unprecedented level of empirical research from case studies of the labour market and employment conditions in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. The book will interest students of Chinese political economy, socialist transition, working class formation and the representation of collective identity.
Download or read book Occupy Movement and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat written by Gerald McIsaac and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occupy movement that is currently sweeping the world is in fact a spontaneous revolutionary movement and lacks direction as the working class, the 99 percent, is not aware of itself as a class. This book attempts to bring to the 99 percent, the proletariat, the awareness of itself as a class and its historical destiny of overthrowing the capitalist class, the 1 percent, creating a socialist state for the benefit of the vast majority, and subsequently crushing the desperate and determined resistance of the 1 percent through the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Download or read book The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Elections to the Constituent Assembly written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
