Marx, Freud and the Critique - Softcover

Brown, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853452806 ISBN 13: 9780853452805

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2010

Synopsis

The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest content with the exclusive emphasis of traditional Marxism on world-historic processes and the struggle of the working classes for their collective emancipation. This means to discover how capitalist rule becomes internalized in individuals who suffer not only from economic and political oppression, but also from forms of specifically psychological oppression that any revolutionary worthy of the name must address. Toward this end of reconciling the personal and the political, the author surveys not only the lessons learned in the New Left during the 1960s, but also the contributions of critical Marxists who have sought to reconstitute Marxism as a critique of everyday life through a critical assimilation of Freudianism into the broader structure of historical materialism.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Brown presently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. He and his loving wife, Patricia, have been married for twenty plus years and have two children and two grandchildren. Bruce earned his bachelor's degree in biblical theology from Saint Thomas Christian College, and is a member of Holy Church of the Living God Revival Center in Atlantic Beach, Florida, where he serves as an associate pastor and teacher, and assists as a multipurpose musician.

About this edition

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0853452806
• ISBN 13: 9780853452805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202