Max Adler
Biographical Note
Max Adler, born January 15, 1873 in Vienna, Austria, studied law at the University of Vienna. Renowned as a Neo-Kantian Marxist, he was active in Austrian Social Democracy as both a politician and theoretician until his death in 1937.
Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on German and Austrian-German Marxists, including The Austro-Marxists 1890-1918, A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985).
Readership
Readers will include undergraduate and graduate students in history, philosophy, and political science, as well as academics in these fields.
Table of Contents
Preface by Mark E. Blum
Foreword
1 Politics and Sociology
2 The Sociological Unity of State and Society
3 The Development of the Concept of Society
4 The Further Development of the Concept of Society by Marx
5 The Formal Logic of Law in Kelsen
6 What is Essential in Marx’s Concept of the State
7 What is a Class?
8 Class and Party
9 Political and Social Democracy
10 Democracy and Freedom
11 Revolution or Evolution?
12 Democracy and Its Organisation
13 Dictatorship
14 Government and Administration
15 Excursus on Anarchism 1 The Denial of Force, Law and Authority 2 The Legal Order and the Conventional Order 3 The Real Difference between Anarchism and Socialism 4 Socialism and Individualism
16 Apparent Anarchism in Marxism 1 The Idea of Liberation 2 Political and Social Forces 3 The Destruction of the Machinery of the State 4 The Withering Away of the State
17 The ‘Marvel’ of the Stateless Organisation
18 Utopianism in Marx and Engels
19 Why We Are Not Understood!
Afterword
Bibliography Index