Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx, Kevin B. Anderson, Karel Ludenhoff, Kevin B. Anderson, Karel Ludenhoff

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781629639161
• eBook ISBN: 9781629639260
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Communisme, post-communisme et socialisme

Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether Social Democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation of Marx's Critique makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of Marx's notion of life after capitalism. An erudite new introduction by Peter Hudis plumbs the depth of Marx's argument, elucidating how his vision of communism, and the transition to it, was thoroughly democratic. At a time when the rule of capital is being questioned and challenged, this volume makes an essential contribution to a real alternative to capitalism, rather than piecemeal reforms. In the twenty-first century, when it has never been more needed, here is Marx at his most liberatory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction The Alternative to Capitalism in Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program by Peter Hudis
• Program of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany [Gotha Program]
• Letter by Karl Marx to Wilhelm Bracke
• Critique of the Gotha Program
• Afterword by Peter Linebaugh
• Index
• About the Contributors