Sidney Hook. Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.

CONTENTS

Part I

THE QUEST FOR MARX

I – Introduction

II – On Historical Understanding

III – “Der Kampf Um Marx”

IV – The Orthodox Canonisation

V – The Revisionist Exegesis

VI – The Syndicalist Heresy

VII – Lenin: The Return to Marx and Forward

VIII – Marxism as Method

Part II

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARX

IX – The Marxian Dialectic

X – Dialectic and Truth

XI – The Materialistic Conception of History

XII – What Historical Materialism is Not

XIII – Problems of Historical Materialism

XIV – Marx’s Sociological Economics

XV – The Philosophy of Political Economy

XVI – The Class Struggle and Social Psychology

XVII – The Theory of the State

XVIII – The Theory of Revolution

XIX – Dictatorship and Democracy

XX – Appendix: Four Letters by Frederic Engels on Historical Materialism