Marxism Of Manuel Sacristan, The: From Communism To The New Social Movements

Manuel Sacristán is Spain’s most important Marxist philosopher.Renzo Llorente, Ph.D. (1998), State University of New York at Stony Brook, teaches philosophy at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. He is the author of Beyond the Pale: Exercises in Provocation (Vagabond Voices, 2010) and numerous articles on ethics and political philosophy.

“An informative, rigorous, excellent translation … [of] a great and essential work”—Salvador López Arnal, Rebelión

• Acknowledgements ... viiIntroduction ... 1A Note on This Edition ... 23PART 1On Marx and Engels1 Marx’s Scientific Work and His Notion of Science ... 292 Karl Marx as a Sociologist of Science ... 673 Engels’s Task in Anti-Dühring ... 1214 Marx on Spain ... 1415 What is Dialectic? ... 1546 One Hundred Years On: To What ‘Literary Genre’ Does Marx’s Capital Belong? ... 1637 On the Centenary of Karl Marx’s Death ... 1678 Which Marx Will Be Read in the Twenty-First Century? ... 170PART 2On Political Ecology, Communist Politics, and the New Social Movements9 Political Ecological Considerations in Marx ... 17910 Paper for the Conference on Politics and Ecology ... 18911 The Political and Ecological Situation in Spain and the Way to Approach This Situation Critically from a Position on the Left ... 19612 Three Notes on the Clash of Cultures and Genocide ... 20113 On the Subject of ‘Eurocommunism’ ... 21214 On Stalinism ... 22015 Marxist Parties and the Peace Movement ... 23016 The Marxist Tradition and New Problems ... 234PART 3Interviews17 ‘Gramsci is a classic, he is not a fad’: Interview with the Diario de Barcelona ... 25518 Manuel Sacristán Speaks with Dialéctica ... 25919 Interview with Naturaleza ... 27820 Interview with Mundo Obrero ... 285Further Reading ... 293References ... 295Index .. 308