Marxism_PhilosophyandEconomics

First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin 1985 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, 40 Museum Street London WClA UK , lLU, George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, Park Larte, Hemel Hempstead, Hens HP2 4TE, UK George Allen & Unwin Ausualia Pty Ltd, 8 Napier Street, Nonh Sydney, NSW 2060, Ausualia George Allen & Unwin with the Pon Nicholson Press PO Box 11-838 Wellington, New Zealand © Thomas Sowell 198 5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ©Sowel��� Thomas Marxism: philosophy and economics. 1. Communism 2 Socialism I. Title 335.4 HX73 ISBN 0-04-320171-7 Set in 11 on 12 point Ga.rarnond by Mathematical Composition Setters Ltd., Ivy Street, Salisbury, UK Reproduced, printed and bound in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Limited, Member of the BPCC Group, Aylesbury, Bucks Contents Preface ix 1 Economics and 1 2 The Dialectical 6 7 and alienation 14 Marxian versus dialectics 17 21 3 Materialism 28 idealism 40 41 4 The Marxian of 46 Ideas and 51 Ideas in 56 ......