Record Nr.

UNINA9910793762103321

Autore

Adler Max <1873-1937.>

Titolo

The Marxist conception of the state : a contribution to the differentiation of the sociological and the juristic method / / by Max Adler ; edited and with a preface by Mark E. Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series; ; volume192

Disciplina

321.92

Soggetti

Communist state

State, The

Communism and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Foreword -- A Scholarly Motto That Contributes to the Present Marxist Critique -- Politics and Sociology -- The Sociological Unity of State and Society -- The Development of the Concept of Society -- The Further Development of the Concept of Society by Marx -- The Formal Logic of Law in Kelsen -- The Essential in Marx’s Concept of the State -- What Is a Class? -- Class and Party -- Political and Social Democracy -- Democracy and Freedom -- Revolution or Evolution? -- Democracy and Its Organisation -- Dictatorship -- Government and Administration -- Excursus on Anarchism -- Apparent Anarchism in Marxism -- The ‘Marvel’ of the Stateless Organisation -- Utopianism in Marx and Engels -- Why We Are Not Understood! -- Afterword -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This translation of Max Adler’s Die Staatsauffassung des Marxismus enables English readers to know a significant perspective on Marx’s theory of the state, which was central to the interwar period in which he was writing (1922). In an extended dialogue with democratic jurist Hans Kelsen, Adler shows that the so-called necessity of law as the neutral arbiter of a democratic society has been heretofore a flawed imposition of the authoritative understandings of the ruling classes.

Adler’s brings to his argument the Kantian concept of “sociation”, where every human judgment perforce sets its determinations within its view of the social whole, demonstrating that an accurate comprehension of interdependent equality that realizes an objective “sociation” can only occur in a “classless” society.