On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy,

This collection of essays--including several translated to English for the first time--covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. With a particular focus on the important role played by Romanticism in Marxist thought, topics include religion, Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Walter Benjamin.Michael Lowy is research director in sociology at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is the author of many books, including The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx and, with Olivier Besancenot, Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy.

by : Michael Löwy