Alasdaire Macintyre's Engagement with Marxism

Selected Writings 1953-1974

By: Alasdair MacIntyre, Paul Blackledge (Editor)

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Although Alasdair MacIntyre is best known today as the author of After Virtue (1981), he was, in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the most erudite members of Britain’s Marxist Left: being a militant within, first, the Communist Party, then the New Left, and finally the heterodox Trotskyist International Socialism group. This selection of his essays on Marxism from that period aims to show that his youthful thought profoundly informed his mature ethics, and that, in the wake of the collapse of the state-capitalist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe, the powerful and optimistic revolutionary Marxist ethics of liberation he articulated in that period is arguably as salient to anti-capitalist activists today as it was half a century ago.

Paul Blackledge, D/Phil (1999) York, is the author of Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (2004) and Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (2006).
Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000) and the Deutscher Prize winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003).

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It is difficult to peruse his engagements with the problems of liberation in a world bisected by Stalinism and US-led capitalism without seeing how much the early emancipatory impulse drove his interrogation into ethics and morality. That Macintyre is no longer a marxist, moreover, does not mean he has made peace with capitalist modernity ... It is actually the very disdain for modernity that continues to give his writing a powerful critical edge.

---Lenin's tomb

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Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre	p. xiii
A Note on Selection and Annotation	p. li
A Bibliography of Works by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1953-1974	p. lvii
Extracts from Marxism: An Interpretation	p. 1
Marxist Tracts	p. 25
On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy	p. 33
The Algebra of the Revolution	p. 41
Notes from the Moral Wilderness	p. 45
Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago	p. 69
Marcuse, Marxism and the Monolith	p. 77
The Straw Man of the Age	p. 81
The 'New Left'	p. 87
What is Marxist Theory For?	p. 95
From MacDonald to Gaitskell	p. 105
Communism and British Intellectuals	p. 115
Freedom and Revolution	p. 123
Breaking the Chains of Reason	p. 135
Is a Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible?	p. 167
The Man who Answered the Irish Question	p. 171
Culture and Revolution	p. 175
Marxists and Christians	p. 179
Rejoinder to Left Reformism	p. 187
Congo, Katanga and the UNO	p. 197
Sartre as a Social Theorist	p. 201
The Sleepwalking Society: Britain in the Sixties	p. 209
Open Letter to a Right-Wing Young Socialist	p. 215
[The New Capitalism and the British Working Class]	p. 221
C. Wright Mills	p. 241
Going into Europe	p. 247
Prediction and Politics	p. 249
True Voice	p. 263
Trotsky in Exile	p. 267
Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning	p. 277
Marx	p. 291
The Socialism of R.H. Tawney	p. 299
Marxist Mask and Romantic Face: Lukacs on Thomas Mann	p. 305
Pascal and Marx: on Lucien Goldmann's Hidden God	p. 317
Recent Political Thought	p. 329
Herbert Marcuse	p. 339
How Not to Write About Stalin	p. 349
How to Write About Lenin - and How Not To	p. 355
The Strange Death of Social Democratic England	p. 361
In Place of Harold Wilson?	p. 369
Marxism of the Will	p. 373
Mr Wilson's Pragmatism	p. 381
Tell Me Where You Stand on Kronstadt	p. 387
Irish Mythologies	p. 395
Sunningdale: a 'Colonial' Solution	p. 401
Irish Conflicts and British Illusions	p. 405
Epilogue. 1953, 1968, 1995: Three Perspectives	p. 411
References	p. 427
Index	p. 437
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