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Here you can find my new book:

KARL MARX AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN

This is a report on work done since I wrote MARX AT THE MILLENNIUM. (Pluto, 1996.) In that book, after decades as an 'orthodox' Marxist-Leninist, I tried, with great difficulty to re-examine the basic assumptions of that body of doctrine and to contrast them with the actual ideas of Karl Marx.

On the one hand, Marx's humanism had been totally buried by our orthodoxy, and had to be disinterred. On the other, the pseudo-scientific notions of historical and dialectical materialism had to be replaced by Marx's critical-revolutionary thought. I have since attempted to show more clearly that these two sides are, in fact, inseparable. For this, it is necessary to probe more deeply into Marx's critique of Hegel's dialectic and to place both of them more carefully into the history of philosophy as a whole. These are two aspects of the new book.

Part 1 Marx’s Concept of the Human

Part 2 Marx’s Critique of Political Philosophy