Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974

MacIntyre, A.C., Blackledge, P. and Davidson, N. (Eds.) (2008) Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974. Series: Historical materialism book series. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004166219

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Abstract

Although Alasdair MacIntyre is best known today as the author of "After Virtue" (1981), he was, in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the most erudite members of Britaina (TM)s Marxist Left: being a militant within, first, the Communist Party, then the New Left, and finally the heterodox Trotskyist International Socialism group. This selection of his essays on Marxism from that period aims to show that his youthful thought profoundly informed his mature ethics, and that, in the wake of the collapse of the state-capitalist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe, the powerful and optimistic revolutionary Marxist ethics of liberation he articulated in that period is arguably as salient to anti-capitalist activists today as it was half a century ago.

Item Type:Edited Books
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Davidson, Mr Neil
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College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:9789004166219

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