History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0262120356 ISBN13: 9780262120357 Release Date: January 1999 Publisher: MIT Press Length: 356 Pages Weight: 1.23 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0" This is the first time one of the most important of Luk cs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat. Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Luk cs evaluated the influence of this book as follows: For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time si