Eagleton Terry: Zašto je Marx bio u pravu

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Zašto je Marx bio u pravu

Eagleton Terry

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Terry Eagleton: Why Marx Was Right

The Communist Manifestois considered one of the most influential texts of the last two centuries. Marx transformed our understanding of human history with his exuberant and uncompromising critique of capitalism. Is Marxism, in the wake of today's devastating financial crisis, just a mere relic from another era?

In his polemical and controversial book, Terry Eagleton deals with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and that it is over. Taking the ten most common objections to Marxism (it leads to political tyranny, reduces everything to economics, embodies a form of historical determinism, etc.), Eagleton shows in his analysis of each of these criticisms that they are just a miserable travesty of Marx's original thought. In a world where major crises have shaken capitalism to its foundations, the book Why Marx Was Right is as necessary and timely as it is bold and audacious.

This book arose from a simple and unusual thought: What if the most famous objections to Marx's work were simply wrong? Or are they, if not entirely, at least wrong in most cases?

This is not to suggest that Marx was never wrong. I'm not the kind of leftist who piously declaims that everything is open to criticism, and then, when asked to name three main objections to Marx, fall into sullen silence. It should be clear from this book that I myself harbor some doubts about his work. But Marx was right about a lot of important issues in his day, so it seems a reasonable description to call someone a Marxist. No follower of Freud holds that Freud was infallible, just as no lover of Alfred Hitchcock justifies every frame of the director or line from the script.

I will not try to present Marx's ideas as perfect, but as convincing. To prove this, in this book I consider ten main objections to Marx, chronologically regardless of their importance, and try to reject them one by one. In the process, I also try to provide a clear and accessible insight into his thought for those who are not familiar with his works.

(Excerpt from the Preface)

#Eagleton Terry