Hal Draper. Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution.

CONTENTS

Volume I

STATE AND BUREAUCRACY

BOOK I

Foreword

PART I

THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUNG MARX

1 – The Democratic Extremist

2 -The Political Apprentice

3 – Emancipation from Hegel

4 – The New Direction

5 – Implementing the New Direction

6 – Orientation Toward the Proletariat

7 – Toward a Theory of the Proletariat

8 – Toward a Class Theory of the State

9 – Character and Revolution

10 – Toward the Principle of Self-Emancipation

PART II

THE THEORY OF THE STATE

11 – The State and Society

12 – The State in Practice: Methods and Forms

13 – The State and Democratic Forms

14 – The Tendency Toward State Autonomy

BOOK II

15 – The Bonaparte Model

16 – Bonapartism: The Bismarckian Extension

17 – Bonapartism and the “Progressive Despot”

18 – Bonapartism in Extremis

19 – State Autonomy in Precapitalist Society

20 – State Bureaucracy and Class

21 – Oriental Despotism: The Social Basis

22 – Oriental Despotism: State and Bureaucracy

23 – Russian Czarism: State and Bureaucracy

APPENDICES

Special Note A. Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype

Special Note B. Rhyme and Reason: The Content of Marx’s Juvenile Verse

Special Note C. The State as Political Superstructure: Marx on Mazzini

Special Note D. The “State Parasite” and the “Capitalist Vermin”

Special Note E. Oriental Despotism Before Marx: the Wittfogel Fable

Special Note F. Oriental Despotism and Engels

Reference Notes

Bibliography

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Volume II

THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CLASSES

Foreword

PART I

THE PROLETARIAT AND PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION

1 – Patterns of Revolution

2 – The Special Class

3 – Anatomy of the Proletariat

4 – Trade Unions and Class

5 – Trade Unions and Politics

6 – The Principle of Class Self-Emancipation

PART II

SOCIAL CLASSES IN REVOLUTION

7 – The Bourgeoisie and Bourgeois Revolution

8 – Permanent Revolution in 1848

9 – Permanent Revolution: Final Version

10 – Bourgeois and Proletarian Revolution: Balance Sheet

11 – The Petty-Bourgeoisie in Revolution

12 – The Peasant Question: Social Setting

13 – The Peasant Question: Toward a Revolutionary Alliance

14 – The Peasant Question: Programmatic Problems

15 – The Lumpen-Class Versus the Proletariat

PART III

MIXED-CLASS ELEMENTS

16 – Intellectual Labor and Laborers

17 – The Social Role of Intellectual Elements

18 – Intellectuals and the Proletarian Movement

APPENDICES

Special Note A. Marx on the Abolition of the Proletariat by Automation

Special Note B. Marx’s Conversation with Hamann

Special Note C. Permanent Revolution: On the Origin of the Term

Special Note D. Hair! or, Marxism and Pilosity

Special Note E. The Address to the Communist League of March 1850

Special Note F. The Alleged Theory of the Disappearance of the Middle Classes

Special Note G. On the Origin of the Term Lumpenproletariat

Special Note H. Two Adventures in Sophisticated Marxology

Special Note I. The Weitling Myth: Horny-Handed Proletarian vs. Intellectual

Special Note J. Marx’s Course in April-May 1848

Reference Notes

Bibliography

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Volume III

THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT

Foreword

PART I

DICTATORSHIP: ITS MEANING IN 1850

1 – From Rome to Robespierre

2 – Socialism and Dictatorship: The Beginning

3 – Dictatorship in 1848

4 – The Dictatorship of the Democracy: Marx in 1848

5 – The “Dictatorship of the People”: Conservative Version

PART II

THE TERM ‘DICTATORSHIP’ IN MARX AND ENGELS

6 – The Spectrum of ‘Dictatorship’

7 – Some Dictators over the Proletariat

PART III

PRELIMINARIES: THE “MARX-BLANQUIST” MYTH

8 – Introduction to the Investigation

9 – Marx and Blanqui

10 – Marx Versus Blanquism

PART IV

‘DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT’ IN MARX AND ENGELS

11 – Marx’s Class Struggles in France

12 – The SUCR Episode

13 – Reverberations in 1850: The NDZ Exchange

14 – More Reverberations

15 – From Weydemeyer to Vogt

16 – The Many Dictatorships of Moses Hess

17 – The Second Period of the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’

18 – Marx and the Blanquists After the Commune

19 – Marx and Engels in the Second Period

20 – The Third Period of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’

SPECIAL NOTES

A – Marxologists at Work

B – Fabrication of a Fable: The “Marx-Blanquist” Myth

C – The Meaning of ‘Terror’ and ‘Terrorism’

D – Ghosts, Goblins, and Garbles

E – Marx-Engels Loci: Summary List

Reference Notes

Bibliography

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Volume IV

CRITIQUE OF OTHER SOCIALISMS

Foreword

1 – Of Utopian Socialism

2 – Of Sentimental Socialism

3 – Of State-Socialism: Lassallean Model

4 – Of State-Socialism: Bismarckian Model

5 – Of Anarchism: Proudhonist Model

6 – Of Anarchism: Bakunin Model

7 – Of the Reactionary Anticapitalisms

8 – Of Boulangism: The Politics of the Third Way

APPENDICES

Special Note A. Lassalle and Marx: History of a Myth

Special Note B. Bakunin and the International: A “Libertarian” Fable

Special Note C. The Strange Case of Franz Mehring

Reference Notes

Bibliography

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Volume V

WAR AND REVOLUTION

INTRODUCTION

1 – WAR AND THE DEMOCRACY IN 1848

2 – “NON-HISTORIC” PEOPLES

3 – THE SIXTH POWER

4 – PULLING THE PLUG

5 – “THE DESPOTS OF ALL COUNTRIES ARE OUR ENEMIES”

6 – BURYING THE ‘TSARIST MENACE’

7 – BURNING DOWN THE EMPEROR’S PALACE

SPECIAL NOTE A. ROSDOLSKY VS. ROSDOLSKY

SPECIAL NOTE B. “CONSTITUTIONAL” OR “REVOLUTIONARY” WAR?

SPECIAL NOTE C. THE LINCOLN MYTH

SPECIAL NOTE D. ENGELS’ “LAST TESTAMENT” A TRAGI-COMEDY IN FIVE ACT

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