Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List

Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List
ISBN-10
0195364066
ISBN-13
9780195364064
Category
Political Science
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
1988-04-28
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Roman Szporluk

Description

In this highly original study, Roman Szporluk examines the relationship between the two dominant ideologies of the 19th century--communism and nationalism--and their enduring legacy in the 20th century. Szporluk argues that both Karl Marx's theory of communism and Friedrich List's theory of nationalism arose in response to the sweeping changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and that both sought to promote industrialization as a means of reforming the modern world. Each ideology, the author contends, developed in relation to the other and can best be understood as the product of a complex interweaving of the two, producing in the 20th century new forms of nationalism that have incorporated Marxism into the fabric of their movement and Marxist states that have adopted threads of nationalistic belief. Casting the role of List and the intellectual development of Marx in an unorthodox light, this book adds a new dimension to the debate over the boundaries of nationalism and socialism in the development of political ideologies.

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