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On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - Paperback

by Étienne Balibar
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Availability:In StockContributor:Étienne BalibarPublish date:1977-01-01Pages:238
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9780902308596ISBN-10:902308599UPC:9780902308596Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCR8001FJD
No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by tienne Balibar.

Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, which decided to 'drop' the aim of the dictatorship of the proletariat and to substitute the objective of a 'democratic' road to socialism. His concrete references are therefore usually to arguments put forward within the French Party. But it is quite obvious that the significance of this book is much wider, not least because, in spite of the important political and economic differences separating the nations of western Europe, many of their Communist Parties are evolving in an apparently similar ideological direction, and indeed appear to be borrowing arguments from one another in support of their new positions.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9780902308596ISBN-10:902308599UPC:9780902308596Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCR8001FJD
?tienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Spinoza and Politics, The Philosophy of Marx and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital.

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.
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