Marxism and the leap to the kingdom of freedom: the rise and fall of the communist utopia

Abstract

1. Marx as philosopher of freedom 2. Engels and 'scientific socialism' 3. Variants of 'necessitarian' Marxism 4. Leninism: from 'scientific socialism' to totalitarian communism 5. From totalitarian communism to communist totalitarianism 6. The dismantling of Stalinism: detotalitarianism Notes Index of names.