Marxism (1985) (edit title/settings)

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1. Thomas Sowell (Author)

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• Library of Congress: HX39.5 .S6539 1985
• Dewey: 335.4

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• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Ideologies › Communism & Socialism
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Ideologies › Radical Thought
• Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy

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• Book Review: Those who would defend freedom against its opposites must avoid the pat generalizations and hackneyed misconceptions that have colored both apologies for and attacks upon the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In his slim, tightly woven but thorough exposition, Thomas Sowell cuts through the labyrinthine rhetoric of Marx and Engels to provide a scholarly but concise and accessible interpretation of Marxian theory.
• Book Review: This morning, I finished reading Thomas Sowell's Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. In some ways, the book was quite frustrating. The discussion of Marxist philosophy was too basic, while the elucidation of the economics came across as little more than a series of floating abstractions. Although Sowell did offer some interesting arguments about the proper interpretation of Marx and Engles, the first eight chapters weren't all that enlightening by themselves. The ninth chapter on the lives of Marx and Engles was revealing in a disturbing kind of way, but it was the tenth chapter which was most philosophically illuminating.
• Book Review: The dimension of the philosophy of economics that falls within the ... 1 The philosophy of economics is now a well-established sub-discipline within ... 1.Sowell is my favorite contemporary economist, and a great writer. Not all economists are great writers, look at Hayek, although to be fair Hayek's first language was German ANYWAY I wanted a book that simply told me what Marx and his economics and philosophy were all about, without adding modern interpretations into it. And this book does exactly that.
• Book Review: Thomas Sowell, the right wing Uncle Tom of the libertarian movement, wrote a book a while back simply titled Marxism, that I didn't even notice I had on my shelf . I began reading it and was surprised at how concise Sowell explains Marx's writings in an objective manner (or at least how objective a right winger can be). Of course for anyone who know a little about Marx's writings can see the obvious subtle interjections of libertarian critique in some of the pages, but all in all, the book is not that bad in explaining Marxist doctrine. It's only when you get to the end that Sowell dedicates the last chapter to his critique of Marxist thought. And of course, it's a mish mash of the typical critiques of Stalinism and the way the Soviet Union ran, etc. It was actually wonderful in how Sowell cemented my belief in Marxism and I was relieved in how weak his arguments against it were! It should be refreshing to anyone in how the libertarian mindset revolves around this "statist" presupposition to anything Marxist.