On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin

This collection of lively and insightful essays including several translated into English for the first time covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. Löwy offers a unique exploration of the role of romanticism as one of the key sources of the Marxist critique of capitalist civilization. And he shows how Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, and Walter Benjamin all share an understanding of socialism as the only truly human altern...