Property and Power Towards a Non-Marxian Historical Materialism

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: THE POLISH ROAD FROM SOCIALISM ON 1. The history of all hitherto existing societies is a history of class struggle - not only that between the exploited and the exploiters, but also that between the ruled and the rulers. And in modern times, there is in some societies a stru...

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Main Author: Nowak, Lesz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Theory and Decision Library
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Table of Contents:
  • 21. The October Revolution Was Not a Social Revolution at All. It Was instead the Result of Anti-Totalitarian People’s Movements
  • 22. Conclusion: The Myth of the Communists
  • References
  • Index of Authors Cited
  • I: On the Necessity of Socialism
  • A. The Marxian Method
  • 1. The Marxian Methodology — An Outline of the Idealizational Interpretation
  • 2. To Surpass Marx with the Aid of His Methodology
  • B. The Marxian Ambiguity. A Proposal for a Non-Marxian Theory of Socio-Economic Formation
  • 3. The Ambiguity of Marxian Historical Materialism
  • 4. The Marxian Ambiguity: An Attempt at a Solution. A Non-Marxian Theory of Socio-Economic Formation (Model I)
  • 5. The Peculiarity of Slavery: The Development through Luxury (Model II)
  • 6. The Peculiarity of Feudalism: The Double Cycle (Models III–IV)
  • 7. The Peculiarity of Capitalism: An Attempt to Pose the Problem
  • C. The Limitations of Marx’s Discoveries. The Generalization of Historical Materialism
  • 8. The Basic Limitation of Marxian Historical Materialism
  • 9. An Attempt at a Marxist Theory of Power
  • 10. Generalized Historical Materialism: Some Main Notions
  • D. The Fundamental Mistake of Marx and the Theory of Socialist Evolution
  • 11. Preamble
  • 12. The People’s Struggle and the Supra-Class Struggle. The Role of the Political Momentum in the Motion of Socio-Economic Formation (Model IP)
  • 13. The Peculiarity of Capitalism: The Necessity for the Disappearance of the Working Class Struggle Leads to Socialism (Model VP)
  • 14. Conclusion. The Problem of Part II
  • II: On the Necessity of Socialism in Russia. Towards the Materialist Reinterpretation of the Marxist Image of Russia’s History
  • 15. Introduction. Socialism in Russia: Modern Dogmas
  • 16. The Totalitarian Anomaly: The Breakdown of the Double Cycle in Russian Feudalism (13th–16th Centuries)
  • 17. Property and Power in Russian Feudalism
  • 18. Tsarist Russia Was the Best Developed Capitalist Country
  • 19. The February Revolution Was a Totalitarian Revolution
  • 20.Totalitarian Society in Russia: March-October 1917