| Hegel, Marx, and the English State |  | Author: David MacGregor
Publisher: Westview Press
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Pages: 345
ISBN: 0813312213
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.01
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Challenging standard interpretations of Hegel and Marx's political theory, this book considers the nature of the state in capitalist society. Revealing the revolutionary content of Hegel's social theory and the Hegelian themes that underlie Marx's analysis of the state in "Capital", the author shows how the transformation of the English state in the 19th century influenced the mature Marx to reclaim Hegelian arguments he had earlier abandoned. These ideas included a theory of politics and social class that coloured Marx's view of capitalist and working class opposition to government reform initiatives.
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The view from the British Museum, Marx and his Blue Papers October 31, 2001
John C. Landon (New York City)
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This is a vey unusual study with a neat research task and a fascinating twist, as it takes up the story of a factory inspector mentioned in Marx's Capital and examines the little know world of these inspectors as they struggled heroically with the British Industrial system of the nineteenth century in all its grotesque and almost endless resistance to even the simplest reform. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this portrait of the collision of the industrial class, from child labor to the plight of chimney sweeps, in the saga of exploitation makes crystal clear, where more ideological harangues fail, the issues that drove the industrial civilization into its twentieth century crisis. In the process the author uncovers an invisible Hegelian strain in Marx's later work and takes up the unusual and very enlightening task of delving into Hegel's views on the 'universal class' and their influence on Marx. This side of Hegel is seldom seen for what it is, and, agree or not, beggars the usual view of Hegel as an easy apologist for classical liberalism.
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