{"product_id":"vulgar-marxism-revolutionary-politics-and-the-dilemmas-of-worker-education-1891-1931-9780226844503","title":"Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931","description":"\u003cb\u003eOffers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For the past hundred years, \"vulgar Marxism\" has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could go wrong. But why would thinkers advocating for working-class emancipation use \"vulgarity\" as an epithet? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eVulgar Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Baring seeks an answer by delving into debates over Marxism in the first decades of the twentieth century. He shows that this common phrase wasn't aimed primarily at popular understandings of Marx. Rather, it was used to attack intellectuals for failing to teach Marx's theory to the working masses \u003ci\u003ecorrectly\u003c\/i\u003e. His history of \"vulgar Marxism\" homes in on the project of mass worker education at a time when the project was both widely pursued and fiercely contested. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Worker education offered a mechanism through which Marxist theory was meant to promote large-scale social and political change, and it drew on a massive infrastructure of schools, publishing houses, and educational bureaus that stretched across Europe and reached millions. By centering this project, Baring radically recasts the history of Marxism from the Second International to World War II. He challenges classic oppositions between \"economistic\" and \"cultural\" versions of Marxism; rereads many of the most significant Marxist theorists of the time, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, and Antonio Gramsci; and offers new resources for understanding how Marxist ideas transformed as they traveled around Europe and then spread throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Baring\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history and human values at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConverts to the Real \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985401872658,"sku":"9780226844503","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23c93af6-86e2-4cff-927b-553f72b9feb8.jpg?v=1769533329","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vulgar-marxism-revolutionary-politics-and-the-dilemmas-of-worker-education-1891-1931-9780226844503","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}