Place of Marxism in History

At a time when many repentant leftists are proclaiming Marxism incapable of explaining the new phenomena of this last quarter of the twentieth century, Ernest Mandel reminds us that Marxism drew from its very inception on the advances of all the social sciences & emancipation movements of its time. In a survey of the multiple sources of Marx & Engels' theory, Mandel identifies the specific contribution of the two friends in the various disciplines to which they applied themselves: philosophy, political economy, social history, revolutionary organization, self-organization of the working class, emancipation movements, & internationalism. Concluding that Marxism "constantly learns from perpetually changing reality" & that it is the conscious expression of the real movement of workers toward self-emancipation, Mandel proposes a formula which provides for a dialectical interaction between innovation & the verification of established tenets.Mandel, Ernest is the author of 'Place of Marxism in History' with ISBN 9780391038141 and ISBN 0391038141.