Alasdair MacIntyre's Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings 1953-1974 (Historical Materialism Book Series)

508 Pages·2008·1.68 MB·English

by  Paul Blackledge

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement
with Marxism
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Historical
Materialism
Book Series
Editorial Board
Paul Blackledge, Leeds – Sébastien Budgen, Paris
Michael Krätke, Amsterdam – Stathis Kouvelakis,
London – Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam
China Miéville, London – Paul Reynolds, Lancashire
Peter Thomas, Amsterdam
VOLUME 19
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s
Engagement with Marxism
Selected Writings 1953–1974
Edited and with an introduction by
Paul Blackledge & Neil Davidson
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2008
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ISSN 1570-1522
ISBN 978 90 04 16621 9
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To the memory of Michael Kidron (1930–2003)
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Contents
Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... xi
Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre .................................... xiii
A Note on Selection and Annotation ........................................................ li
A Bibliography of Works by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1953–1974 .............. lvii
Chapter One Extracts from Marxism: An Interpretation ..................... 1
Chapter Two Marxist Tracts ..................................................................... 25
Chapter Three On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy ......................... 33
Chapter Four The Algebra of the Revolution ....................................... 41
Chapter Five Notes from the Moral Wilderness .................................. 45
Chapter Six Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago .................................................. 69
Chapter Seven Marcuse, Marxism and the Monolith ......................... 77
Chapter Eight The Straw Man of the Age ............................................. 81
Chapter Nine The ‘New Left’ .................................................................. 87
Chapter Ten What is Marxist Theory For? ............................................ 95
Chapter Eleven From MacDonald to Gaitskell .................................... 105
Chapter Twelve Communism and British Intellectuals ..................... 115
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Chapter Thirteen Freedom and Revolution .......................................... 123
Chapter Fourteen Breaking the Chains of Reason .............................. 135
Chapter Fifteen Is a Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible? ................... 167
Chapter Sixteen The Man who Answered the Irish Question .......... 171
Chapter Seventeen Culture and Revolution ......................................... 175
Chapter Eighteen Marxists and Christians ........................................... 179
Chapter Nineteen Rejoinder to Left Reformism ................................. 187
Chapter Twenty Congo, Katanga and the UNO .................................. 197
Chapter Twenty-One Sartre as a Social Theorist ................................. 201
Chapter Twenty-Two The Sleepwalking Society: Britain in the
Sixties .......................................................................................................... 209
Chapter Twenty-Three Open Letter to a Right-Wing Young
Socialist ....................................................................................................... 215
Chapter Twenty-Four [The New Capitalism and the British
Working Class] .......................................................................................... 221
Chapter Twenty-Five C. Wright Mills ................................................... 241
Chapter Twenty-Six Going into Europe ................................................ 247
Chapter Twenty-Seven Prediction and Politics ................................... 249
Chapter Twenty-Eight True Voice .......................................................... 263
Chapter Twenty-Nine Trotsky in Exile ................................................. 267
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Contents • ix
Chapter Thirty Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning ...................... 277
Chapter Thirty-One Marx ......................................................................... 291
Chapter Thirty-Two The Socialism of R.H. Tawney .......................... 299
Chapter Thirty-Three Marxist Mask and Romantic Face: Lukács
on Thomas Mann ...................................................................................... 305
Chapter Thirty-Four Pascal and Marx: on Lucien Goldmann’s
Hidden God ................................................................................................ 317
Chapter Thirty-Five Recent Political Thought ..................................... 329
Chapter Thirty-Six Herbert Marcuse ..................................................... 339
Chapter Thirty-Seven How Not to Write About Stalin ...................... 349
Chapter Thirty-Eight How to Write About Lenin – and How
Not To .......................................................................................................... 355
Chapter Thirty-Nine The Strange Death of Social Democratic
England ....................................................................................................... 361
Chapter Forty In Place of Harold Wilson? ............................................ 369
Chapter Forty-One Marxism of the Will ............................................... 373
Chapter Forty-Two Mr Wilson’s Pragmatism ...................................... 381
Chapter Forty-Three Tell Me Where You Stand on Kronstadt ......... 387
Chapter Forty-Four Irish Mythologies ................................................... 395
Chapter Forty-Five Sunningdale: a ‘Colonial’ Solution ..................... 401
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