Table Of ContentMarxism, the Millennium
and Beyond
Edited by
Mark Cowling and Paul Reynolds
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Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond
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Also by Mark Cowling
APPROACHES TO MARX (co-editor with Lawrence Wilde)
DATE RAPE AND CONSENT
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: New Interpretations (editor)
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Marxism, the Millennium
and Beyond
Edited by
Mark Cowling
Principal Lecturer in Politics
University of Teesside
and
Paul Reynolds
Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology
Edge Hill College
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Chapter 12 © Jonathan Hughes 2000
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Contents
List of Table and Figures vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgement ix
Abbreviation: Marx and Engels, Collected Works x
Notes on the Contributors xi
1. Introduction: Marxism at the Millennium and Beyond? 1
Mark Cowling and Paul Reynolds
Part 1: Towards a Feasible Socialist Politics
2. What do Socialists Want? 29
Alan Carling
3. The Ethical Marxism of Erich Fromm 55
Lawrence Wilde
4. The Ethical Post-Marxism of Alasdair MacIntyre 74
Kelvin Knight
5. Habermas on Theory and Political Practice 97
Peter M. R. Stirk
Part 2: Marxism and the State
6. Recent Developments in State Theory: Approaches,
Issues, Agendas 119
Bob Jessop
7. Marxism, Liberalism and State Theory 146
Paul Wetherly
8. Class Struggle and Revolution in Eastern Europe: The
Case of Poland 161
Rick Simon
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Part 3: Developing Marxist Politics at the Millennium
9. Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Future 183
Hillel Ticktin
10. Democratic Marxism: the Legacy of Hal Draper 199
Alan Johnson
11. Femininities: a Way of Linking Socialism and Feminism? 221
Mark Cowling
12. Development of the Productive Forces: An Ecological
Analysis 236
Jonathan Hughes
Part 4: Marxism and Post-Marxism
13. Post-Marxism: Radical Political Theory and Practice
Beyond Marxism? 257
Paul Reynolds
14. The Post-Marxist Critique of Marxism: The Case of
Agnes Heller 280
Simon Tormey
15. ‘Not Dead Yet’: Marxism and Political Theory in the
Era of Post-Communism 299
Michael Levin
Index 311
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List of Table and Figures
Table 2.1 Four forms of reciprocity 39
Figure 3.1 Fromm’s notion of social character as
intermediate between material basis and ideas
(Lawrence Wilde) 58
Figure 12.1 Ecological impact of the labour process
(Jonathan Hughes) 237
Figure 12.2 Basic types of fettering (Jonathan Hughes) 244
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Preface
This collection has its origins in the 1998 Political Studies Association
Marxism Specialist Group Annual Conference, which was held at Edge
Hill College in September 1998, on the theme of Marxism, Millennium
and Beyond. Thanks to Professor Alistair McCulloch, Head of Research
at Edge Hill for his support for the conference, and the conference staff
at Edge Hill for the smooth operation of the conference over the two
days. Thanks also to the College, who subsidized some delegates attend-
ing the conference.
Paul Reynolds would like to thank Claire Robinson for her assistance
in preparation of parts of the collection and for her intervention on his
chapter on post-Marxism.
Mark Cowling would like to thank the Research Committee of the
School of Social Sciences at the University of Teesside for providing
teaching relief, some of which was used in the production of this
volume.
Both editors would like to thank the staff at Macmillan, particularly
our commissioning editor Alison Howson, and our copy editor Linda
Auld, for their friendly help. We would also like to thank our contribu-
tors, who provided high quality manuscripts in good time.
This volume is the fourth edited collection produced by the
PSA Marxism Specialist Group. If you might be interested in joining
it, contact Mark Cowling at the University of Teesside, email
[email protected]
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Acknowledgement
The editors wish to thank Cambridge University Press for permission to
use Jonathan Hughes’ chapter, ‘Development of the Productive Forces:
An Ecological Analysis’, an expanded version of which will appear as
Chapter 3 of his Ecology and Historical Materialism (Cambridge, Cam-
bridge University Press, 2000).
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