Record Nr.

UNINA9910797062503321

Autore

Draper Hal

Titolo

Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution . Volume 5 War & revolution / / Hal Draper & E. Haberkern

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York : , : Monthly Review Press
Alameda, California : , : Center for Social History, , [2005]
©2005

ISBN

1-58367-523-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Soggetti

Revolutions and socialism

Revolutions

War

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION.; The "Revolution" of August 14, 1914; Lenin, Potresov and Kautsky; Three Epochs; "No Other Question Could Have Been Posed"; Two Barking Dogs; What Engels Did and Didn't Say; CHAPTER 1. WAR AND THE DEMOCRACY IN 1848; War and Revolution 1793-1848; The Main Enemy; A Nation That Oppresses Others Cannot Itself Be Free; War With Russia; "Sea-Girt Schleswig-Holstein"; Hungarians and Poles; The Old Poland and the New; Revolutionary Cattle Dealers; The Workers Have No Country; CHAPTER 2. "NON-HISTORIC" PEOPLES; Twenty Vendées

Hegel on "Residual Fragments of Peoples"The "Non-Historic" Czechs; "Counterrevolutionary Peoples"; Bakunin's 'Völkisch' Nationalism; Democratic Pan-Slavism; CHAPTER 3. THE SIXTH POWER; Marx's "Russophobia"; First Impressions; The Revolutionary Side; The Peace Party in England; The Russian Menace; Two Ex-Revolutionaries; The "Sixth Power"; CHAPTER 4: PULLING THE PLUG; The Demagogy of "National Revolution"; Po and Rhine; Lassalle's Appeasement Policy; Germany's Unification in "A Prussian Barracks"; Bismarck's Coup; "The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party"

Engels on Universal ConscriptionA Bourgeois Bluff; The "Workers' Party"

and Universal Suffrage; "Bourgeois Freedoms"; Engels as "Military Expert" in 1866; CHAPTER 5. "THE DESPOTS OF ALL COUNTRIES ARE OUR ENEMIES"; The 1870 Split in the German Social Democracy; Marx and Engels' 'Defensism'; Marx's 'Pro-Prussianism'; The "Neutrality Spirit'; The Trouble With Wilhelm Liebknecht; Engels' Attack on Liebknecht; Marx's Reply to Engels; The Letter to the Brunswick Committee; What Changed at Sedan; Postscript; "How to Fight the Prussians"; Treason; CHAPTER 6. BURYING THE 'TSARIST MENACE'

The Danger of WarThe Tsarist Threat; Engels' 1891 "Prowar" Aberration; The Tsar Learns to Sing the Marseillaise; The Dispute With Bebel; The French Reaction; A New Stage of Capitalism?; Internment; CHAPTER 7. BURNING DOWN THE EMPEROR'S PALACE; Can Europe Disarm?; "... and the German Army Is Ours"; The Fight Over The Class Struggles in France; SPECIAL NOTE A: ROSDOLSKY VS. ROSDOLSKY; Marx and Engels on 1846; Two Diversions; The Neue Rheinische Zeitung and the Jews; Rosdolsky: 1929 and 1948; SPECIAL NOTE B. "CONSTITUTIONAL" OR "REVOLUTIONARY" WAR?; Lincoln and Slavery

The Abolitionists in ChargeMarx on the Secession Crisis; Lincoln's Fear of Revolution; Marx as commentator on the American Civil War; Why?; SPECIAL NOTE C:THE LINCOLN MYTH; SPECIAL NOTE D: ENGELS' "LAST TESTAMENT" A TRAGI-COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS; Enter Wilhelm Liebknecht Stage Right-Stumbling; Enter Bernstein-Twirling a Long Black Mustache; D. Riazonov Discovers Engels' Original Draft; The Communists vs. the Socialist Labor Party-Comic Relief; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

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