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From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

by Goran Therborn · 2008

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A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politics In this pithy and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 194 pages

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