From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sat May 06 2006 - 12:11:46 EDT
>Are there any other OPE-Lers who have books that are about to be printed? My English translation of Prof. Marcel van der Linden's historical survey "Western Marxism and the Soviet Union; Criticism and Debates 1917-2005" will be published by Brill in the HM series soon, though I don't know exactly when yet. The book traces the evolution of all the main variants of Western Marxist theories from Kautsky/Luxemburg/Lukacs/Korsch/Gorter etc. thru to Alvater/Bettelheim/Mandel/Marcuse/Cliff/Operaism/Dutschke/Red Flag/Bahro etc., in different era's of history, that were published in German, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish etc. Some of the authors cited are wellknown, others rather obscure. It also features an extensive bibliography of original sources (mostly excluded are the "official communist" views that reflected the positions taken by Moscow and Beijing, because they are ruled out of Western Marxism). Earlier (shorter) versions of Marcel's book appeared in Dutch (as his Phd thesis) and German previously. One (not really spectacular) finding of the study is that, although the Western theories offered implied errors of logic and errors of fact, and mostly are a far cry from Karl Marx's own thought or dispassionate scientific appraisal, the various theorists often did notice some important problems of the Soviet Union. The theories also tended to change according to the climate of the times. Jurriaan
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