A Documentary Study of Hendrik De Man Socialist Critic of Marxism

<p>In this collection of excerpts from the essential works of Hendrik de Man (1885-1953) Peter Dodge reinstates in historical consciousness this pioneer sociologist of the European socialist movement and of labor in industrial society. Regarded before World War II as pre-eminent among socialist theoreticians comparable to Marx himself de Man fell into obscurity when his equivocal neutralist stance during the Occupation of his native Belgium undermined his political legitimacy. Yet de Mans observations on the class order of capitalist society on the difficulties of establishing effective industrial democracy and on the nature of industrial society may be even more relevant today than they were in early twentieth-century Europe.<br><br> While largely accepting the Marxist analysis of capitalism de Man also drew attention to the unacknowledged collapse of many of its assumptions. Insofar as capitalism evolved in ways that Marx had not foreseen de Man partially attributes the fate of socialism to the limitations of Marxisms nineteenth-century mode of analysis.<br><br> Selecting from the seventeen books forty-odd brochures and some four hundred articles that comprise de Mans works the editor chooses those passages that are of primary significance for dc Mans intellectual development and for his contribution to social analysis. In addition to explanatory headnotes and an Introduction to de Mans life the volume contains a selective bibliography of primary and secondary material.<br><br>Originally published in 1979.<br><br>The <b>Princeton Legacy Library</b> uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.</p>