دانلود کتاب Main Currents of Marxism. Vol 2. The Golden Age

Main Currents of Marxism is a handbook and a thorough survey of the varieties of Marxism; it will be published in three volumes. The author delineates the development of Marx's own thought and the contributions of his best-known followers.

No survey of the doctrines of the Marxist tradition could fail to be controversial but Professor Kolakowski's treatment is detached and pluralistic and he does not attempt to identify a pure or essentially Marxist strand in the tradition as a whole. There is no better example of the variety of Marxism than the diversity which results from the tension between the Utopian and fatalist impulses in Marx's thought. In Professor Kolakowski's own words 'The surprising diversity of views expressed by Marxists in regard to Marx's so-called historical determinism is a factor which makes it possible to present and schematize with precision the trends of twentieth-century Marxism. It is also clear that one's answer to the question concerning the place of human consciousness and will in the historical process goes far towards determining the sense one ascribes to socialist ideals and is directly linked with the theory of revolutions and of crises'.

In Volume Two, The Golden Age, Professor Kolakowski discusses the doctrines of the leading Marxists in the era of the Second International The controversies which divided Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Bernstein, Plekhanov and Lenin are all examined. At this time there were many interesting varieties of Marxism and the author discusses the contributions of George Sorel, Ludwik Krzywicki, Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Kantian Austro-Marxists.