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Is Marxism really dead, or can it play a positive role in creating a just and fulfilling society? This study responds to these questions with an assessment of Marxism from its origins to the present day. It provides an overview of the content, strengths and weaknesses of Marx's own work.

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Gottlieb's book was written with general readers rather than specialists in mind. This aim is achieved to a remarkable extent, as the author provides a sympathetic but critical examination of the subject. He begins with a fresh overview and candid critique of traditional Marxism, followed by a keen analysis of positivist Marxism in European social democracy, and capped by a look at Rosa Luxemburg's concern with working-class political development. The latter was bypassed in social democratic capitulation to capitalism and crushed in the postrevolutionary terror of Soviet communism. Marxism's death in the triumph of Stalinism was not final for Gottlieb, who argues for its rebirth through Western Marxism and socialist-feminism. Part 4 opens with a strong case for the continuing relevance of recent Marxist analyses of the capitalist system. Chapter 8 is a less coherent, somewhat hurried critical commentary on various "radical critics" such as Giddens and Aronowitz. Gottlieb's last chapter offers a provocative discussion of the effects of anger in the politics of social change and of spiritual sources of meaning that, properly understood, might advance a nonsectarian Left that is ecologically attuned by "global consciousness" as well as class consciousness. Public through graduate collections. H. G. Reid; University of Kentucky