Karl Marx's Theory of History (expanded edition)

A Defence

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by G. A. Cohen

Princeton University Press

Due/Published December 2000, 430 pages, paper

ISBN 0691070687

Expanded edition (F00)

First published in 1978, this book established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.