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The State and Socialism: Political Essays
by Vajda, Mihaly
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0850313910
- ISBN 13
- 9780850313918
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London, England, U.K.: Allison & Busby, 1980. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book contains the political and theoretical writings of one of Hungary's most prominent dissident intellectuals; Vajda, student of Georg Lukacs, held a post at the Philosophical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until he was expelled from the Academy and the Communist Party; this book begins with a discussion of the shortcomings of the ideas of Korsch and Lukacs about class consciousness in terms of events in Eastern Europe; the title essay illuminates the contrast between Marx's view of the power-structure of socialism and that of the actually existing socialist countries; several of the essays debate with other dissidents such as Bahro, Rakovski, Konrad, and Szelenyi; finally there is a discussion of the nature of the system in various Eastern European countries (white cover with red & black lettering, titles of the essays on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002357
- Title
- The State and Socialism: Political Essays
- Author
- Vajda, Mihaly
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0850313910
- ISBN 13
- 9780850313918
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Place of Publication
- London, England, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1980
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