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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349544703321

Autore

Nimtz August H.

Titolo

Marxism versus Liberalism : Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis / / by August H. Nimtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-24946-8

9783030249465.

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

320.51

320.532

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Political science

Political sociology

Europe - History

Labor

History

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Political Sociology

European History

Labor History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The European Spring, 1848-1851: Marx and Engels versus Tocqueville -- 3. The United States Civil War: Marx versus Mill -- 4. Two Takes on the Russian Revolution of 1905: Lenin versus Weber -- 5. The October Revolution and End of the ‘Great War’: Lenin versus Wilson -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Performing a comparative real-time political analysis, Marxism versus Liberalism presents convincing evidence to sustain two similarly audacious claims: firstly, that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels collectively had better democratic credentials than Alexis de



Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill; and secondly, that Vladimir Lenin had better democratic credentials than Max Weber and Woodrow Wilson. When the two sets of protagonists are compared and contrasted in how they read and responded to big political events in motion, this book contends that these Marxists proved to be better democrats than the history’s most prominent Liberals. Exploring the historical scenarios of The European Spring of 1848, the United States Civil War, the 1905 Russian Revolution, the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the end of World War I, Marxism versus Liberalism carefully tests each claim in order to challenge assumed political wisdom.