Shlomo Avineri, “Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution”

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx’s life through his intellectual contributions to modern thoughtKarl Marx (1818–1883)—philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor—was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Read more

Jay Bergman, “The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture”

Because they were Marxists, the Bolsheviks in Russia, both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail, a series of mysterious, but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible, universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end. Read more
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