Tom Bottomore, editor. Interpretations of Marx.

Contents

Introduction / Tom Bottomore

The formation of Marx’s thought

The structure and development of capitalist society

The theory of classes

Social movements and ideologies

General view of Marx’s social theory

Part I

Society and History

1 – Marx the Sociologist / J. A. Schumpeter

2 – Marx’s New Science / Louis Althusser

3 – Structuralism and Marxism / Maurice Godelier

4 – Marx’s Political Economy / Meghnad Desai

5 – Historical Materialism / Isaiah Berlin

6 – Concerning the Limitation of the Materialistic Theory of History / Benedetto Croce

7 – The Materialist Conception of History / Rudolf Hilferding

8 – Marx and the ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’ / George Lichtheim

Part II

Science, Philosophy and Praxis

9 – Marx’s Concept of Man / Gajo Petrovic

10 – Sociology and the Philosophy of Praxis / Antonio Gramsci

11 – Philosophy and Sociology in Marx’s Early Writings / Lucien Goldmann

12 – Critique of Marx’s Positivism / Albrecht Wellmer

13 – The Ethical Potential of Marx’s Thought / Svetozar Stojanovic

14 – Labour and Human Needs in a Society of Associated Producers / Agnes Heller

Part III

Property and Social Classes

15 – Towards a Sociological Analysis of Property Relations / Andras Hegedüs

16 – The Marxian Synthesis / Stanislaw Ossowski

17 – Class Consciousness / Georg Lukács

18 – The Proletariat / Shlomo Avineri

19 – Social Classes and the State / Nicos Poulantzas

20 – Karl Marx’s ‘Enquête Ouvrière’ / Hilde Weiss

Part IV

Politics, Law and Ideology

21 – Marx and the State / Ralph Miliband

22 – The Economic and Social Functions of the Legal Institutions / Karl Renner

23 – Ideology and Theory / Leszek Kolakowski

24 – Ideology / Jürgen Habermas

Bibliographical References