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Main currents of Marxism : the founders, the golden age, the breakdown
\"Drawing on powerful historical and philosophical insight, Main Currents of Marxism traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotinus through Hegel to Lukacs, Sartre, and Mao. Leszek Kolakowski reveals Marxism to be \"the greatest fantasy of our century ... an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism.\" Long before the overwhelming majority of historians, journalists, and intellectuals around the world came to see the devastation wrought by autocratic, state-sponsored socialism, Kolakowski pointed to the shortcomings of a system doomed to failure.\" \"Recognized when it was first published for its profound historical insights and for its exposition of how the Communist hierarchy was quickly corroding from the inside, this forceful work has influenced several generations of scholars and historians. Despite decades of major political change, Main Currents of Marxism remains as accurate and incisive as ever. In a new preface and epilogue, Kolakowski reexamines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous years.\"--Jacket.
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The Impossible Totality
Rather than attempt to summarize the many ways Jameson has enriched Marxist thinking, this essay looks to his theorization of totality as a major contribution to radical thought. To some extent, the dialectics involved require close attention to the construction of the Jamesonian sentence, but this essay also considers Jameson's prodigious skills in cultural critique and draws on key examples from his book on Raymond Chandler. In emphasizing totality as impossible rather than as complete, the argument hopes to keep alive Jameson's emphasis on the struggle of thought as an ongoing practice in cognizing the material limits and possibilities of social transformation.
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