"'Marx's rebellion against Lenin' is representative of the contemporary revitalization of the thought of Marx. It fulfils this task in three ways. First, it overthrows the dialectical materialism of Engels and of Stalinist Bolshevism by exploring 18th-century historical thought and illustrating how these enlightenment historians and political theorists first explored methods of historical explanation that were later adopted by Marx. It is shown that contrary to the theory of Stalinist Bolshevism, Hegel was a vital influence ...
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"'Marx's rebellion against Lenin' is representative of the contemporary revitalization of the thought of Marx. It fulfils this task in three ways. First, it overthrows the dialectical materialism of Engels and of Stalinist Bolshevism by exploring 18th-century historical thought and illustrating how these enlightenment historians and political theorists first explored methods of historical explanation that were later adopted by Marx. It is shown that contrary to the theory of Stalinist Bolshevism, Hegel was a vital influence on Marx. Second, Levine's book represents Marx as an exponent of classical humanism. Marx did not define communism as a form of materialism, as economic egalitarianism, but rather related communism to the classical ethics of Aristotle, to the Aristotelian ideas of polis citizenship and the ethics of distributive justice. Third, it is argued that the 17th- and 18th-century enlightenment was not simply a liberal center extolling property, individual rights and capitalism. Instead it is shown that it was divided between an enlightenment center and an enlightenment left, with the enlightenment left challenging the domination of capitalism and private property"--
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