Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New Century (2013)

Marxism in Dark TimesSelect Essays for the New Century\nAuthor(s): Sobhanlal Datta Gupta\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781783080557, 978-1783080557\nSynopsis\nOffering an alternative exploration of the subject, Marxism in Dark Times anchors its investigation of Marxism in the conceptual spheres of humanism, democracy and pluralism. Its essays question the stereotyped, positivist notion of the theory as practised by the exponents of official Marxism, highlight the legacy of the suppressed voices in the Marxist tradition, and provide new insights into reading Marxism in the twenty-first centuryaffording new perspectives on Antonio Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Nikolai Bukharin, David Ryazanov and the Frankfurt School. They seek to review the phenomenon of Perestroika, explore the new historiography on Comintern, and examine the relation between Marxism and postmodernism. With its wide-ranging provision of materialssome translat.