Tag: Democracy

Other Works

  • On the Jewish Question (1844)

    - Marx, Karl. On the Jewish Question. Marxists.org.
    Excerpt: “The German Jews desire emancipation. What kind of emancipation do they desire? Civic, political emancipation. Bruno Bauer replies to them: No one in Germany is politically emancipated. We ourselves are not free. How are we to free you? You… More

Commentary

  • The Cambridge Companion to Marx

    - Carver, Terrell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    From the Publisher: “Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as… More
  • “The Socialist Polis: Antiquity and Socialism in Marx’s Thought”

    - Claudio Katz. “The Socialist Polis: Antiquity and Socialism in Marx’s Thought.” The Review of Politics, Vol. 56 (1994), pp. 237–260.
    Abstract: “The central question guiding this essay is: what does Marx’s socialism owe to classical antiquity? Underlying this question is the thesis that Marx’s studies of classical Greece supply the angle of vision necessary to bring to… More
  • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

    - Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper, 2008.
    From the Publisher: “2011 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 – 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term “creative destruction” in economics. Schumpeter’s… More
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies

    - Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
    From the Publisher: ” One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of… More