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The central theme of the book is ‘the development and decline of a revolutionary class consciousness’ in the second quarter of the 19th century; its basic aim ‘to further our understanding of how industrial capitalism developed as a whole ’. 2 The result is a rare conjuncture between a consistent application of Marxist categories and the most ri...
The positivistic adherence to the visible and immediately verifiable ‘facts’ of the past was reinforced by an almost unquestioned acceptance of the basic tenets of 19th-century English liberalism. Individuals were discrete, autonomous, and thus morally accountable for their actions.
Dec 11, 2016 · He railed against the inhumane conditions workers were being subjected to by their regimentation in factories, by their long working hours and shocking conditions, the horror of child labour (which was a form of slavery), and the venality of their paymasters.
A triumphant industrial technology only subdued nature at the expense of violating man himself. Once the bonds uniting man and nature were sundered, man became a rootless, disoriented being whose outward material accomplishments were only attained at the expense of inward spiritual loss.
Apr 18, 2018 · Stedman Jones argues that, in order to arrive at a realistic picture of the man and his scientific achievements, one must first dissociate him from twentieth-century Marxism and from the untainted image of his character, political judgement, and scientific contributions that his self-declared Marxist heirs, Engels foremost amongst them, have ...
Stedman Jones moves through a series of 'social' explanations, arguing that this mode of explanation, in his own work and that of others, is deficient in its conception of language.
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He thus underestimates the changes in Marx’s position at the time. Stedman Jones argues, for example, that Marx’s articles on India repeat the same vision of international revolution advanced in the Manifesto (pp. 358, 359).
