Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study
Cover of the first edition
AuthorGeorge Lichtheim
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMarxism
Published1961
PublisherRoutledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages412 (1971 fourth impression)
ISBN978-0710046451

Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study (1961; second edition 1964) is a book by the socialist intellectual George Lichtheim, in which the author provides a study of the development of Marxism from its origins to 1917.[1] It has been seen as a classic work.

Publication history

Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study was first published in 1961 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. In 1964, it was published in a revised second edition.[2]

Reception

Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study has been praised by authors such as the historian Peter Gay,[3] the political scientist David McLellan,[1] the political theorist Terrell Carver,[4] and the historian of science Roger Smith.[5] Gay described the book as one of the best discussions of alienation in the literature on Marx and Hegel.[3] Carver identified the work as a classic.[4] Smith wrote that "though sometimes criticized in detail", the work helps locate Marx "in the left political movements of the nineteenth century".[5]

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