Gareth Stedman Jones
Teoksen Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion tekijä
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Tekijän teokset
Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society (1971) 126 kappaletta
Das Kommunistische Manifest: von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels. Einführung, Text, Kommentar (2012) 3 kappaletta
The Specificity of U.S. Imperialism 1 kappale
Associated Works
Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century (British Academy Occasional Papers) (2007) — Avustaja — 20 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Jones, Gareth Stedman
- Syntymäaika
- 1942-12-17
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- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- London, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- London, England, UK
- Koulutus
- St Paul's School, London, England, UK
Oxford University (Lincoln College) - Ammatit
- historian
Professor of the History of Ideas, Queen Mary, University of London - Organisaatiot
- Cambridge University
Queen Mary, University of London - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.
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Labor History (1)
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There's plenty of detail, and much of it is interesting and useful. The frame is ludicrous, though. One paragraph on page 241 is dedicated to telling us what Marx achieved: being the first person to systematically explain capitalism as a system; to explain capitalism as a history; to explain its concrete effects on laborers and others; to emphasize its effects on our subjectivity and desires; to reveal its revolutionary destructiveness (more famously described by Schumpeter). Most of the rest of the book is dedicated to explaining that Marx was somehow full of shit. Now, that seems a bit wrong. Do we really need a hundred pages detailing Marx's empirical failings as a writer for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung? That's useful, yes. But it's funny to read paragraphs like the one on page 241, and then realize that Gazza thinks Marx was a *failure*.
So, this book is great, because it isn't hagiographical. It is good on the shifts in Marx's own political positions, and it would be great if ultra-leftist types could read it and reconsider their revolution-or-nothing positions. But they won't read it, because of the idiotic satanographic framing that is somehow meant to show us the 'real Karl' instead of St. Marx. Probably somewhere in between.
Oh, and on Capital, Gazza is terrible. Naughty Gazza!… (lisätietoja)