Elements of Marxian economic theory and its criticism / by William J. Blake.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cordon Company, 1939.Description: 1 p. l., v-viii, 746 pages ; 21 cmOther title:
  • An American looks at Karl Marx [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1
LOC classification:
  • HB 501.M5 B55 1939
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Partial contents:
Section I: Preliminaries to Marxian political theory -- Section II: The Marxist analysis of the prevailing capitalist economy -- Section III: The attack on Marxian economic theory -- Section IV: Sources and philosophy of Marxist political economy
Summary: "[The author] has written here what is the most comprehansive treatment of Marxian economica and its place in the world-view of dialectical materialism which has yet appeared in America. "Mr. Blake analyzes in detail every significant category of the Marxian theory of capitalism ...; and he considers, also in detail, most major and minor critics of the last fifty years, all the way from John R. Commons in America to Bohm-Bawerk in Austria. His general conclusion is that, in condemning Marxism as sterile and unsound, the academicians are wrong because their own judgements are based as a rule on assumptions entirely different from its own assumptions. He ... takes his stand with the essential superiority of the latter and validity of the theory which arise from them; and he invites the use of his book as a text for courses to be devoted to a tolerant re-examination of that theory." -- from journal article
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Published also under title: An American looks at Karl Marx.

Contains list of economic terms employed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, with definitions where they differ from dictionary usage or from that of customary economics (pages 710 - 721),

Contains a Socialist chronology of key dates from 1776 to 1936 (pages 722 - 729).

Includes "bibliographical guide" (pages 661-699) and index.

Section I: Preliminaries to Marxian political theory -- Section II: The Marxist analysis of the prevailing capitalist economy -- Section III: The attack on Marxian economic theory -- Section IV: Sources and philosophy of Marxist political economy

"[The author] has written here what is the most comprehansive treatment of Marxian economica and its place in the world-view of dialectical materialism which has yet appeared in America. "Mr. Blake analyzes in detail every significant category of the Marxian theory of capitalism ...; and he considers, also in detail, most major and minor critics of the last fifty years, all the way from John R. Commons in America to Bohm-Bawerk in Austria. His general conclusion is that, in condemning Marxism as sterile and unsound, the academicians are wrong because their own judgements are based as a rule on assumptions entirely different from its own assumptions. He ... takes his stand with the essential superiority of the latter and validity of the theory which arise from them; and he invites the use of his book as a text for courses to be devoted to a tolerant re-examination of that theory." -- from journal article

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