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By Leszek Kolakowski

ISBN-10: 0198245696

ISBN-13: 9780198245698

From thinker Leszek Kolakowski, one of many giants of twentieth-century highbrow background, comes this hugely infuential learn of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic paintings' offers, based on the Library of Congress, 'the such a lot lucid and finished historical past of the origins, constitution, and posthumous improvement of the approach of proposal that had the best effect at the 20th century'. Kolakowski strains the highbrow foundations of Marxist proposal from Plotonius via Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. He unearths Marxism to be 'the maximum fable of our century ...an concept that begun in Promethean humanism and culminated within the significant tyranny of Stalinism'. In a super coda, he examines the cave in of foreign Communism in mild of the final tumultuous many years. major Currents of Marxism is still the imperative ebook in its box.

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Semeen Archiv na Khadzhitoshevi, 355. 99 For a critical evaluation of this concept in an Ottoman context see Suraiya Faroqhi, “The Fieldglass and the Magnifying Lens: Studies of Ottoman Crafts and Craftsmen,” JEEH 20, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 30–31. 100 Lyberatos, Oikonomia, Politikē kai Ethnikē Ideologia, 72–73. 101 BIA-NBKM, f. 6, IA 9019. 102 Petko probably invested the capital from the tavern and dükkân in expanding the putting-out activity. Unlike other Balkan entrepreneurs, some of them from the same locality, he did not trade abroad in Austria or Southern Russia but chose interregional market opportunities within the Ottoman Empire.

E. 1, 119. e. 1, 128–153. 125 Consider the example of a certain Cincar in Smederevo. 126 While this career trajectory seems linear and reminiscent of Stoianovich’s five-stage approach, many other mer­ chants simultaneously had various jobs. Mikhail Madzharov’s father of Koprivshtitsa mixed abacılık (owning a shop with apprentices), çorapçılık (knitting, buying, and exporting socks), and celepçilik (owning and trad­ ing in sheep and buffaloes). 129 That is why the physical mobil­ ity was so pivotal.

1, 115–116. e. 1, 119. e. 1, 128–153. 125 Consider the example of a certain Cincar in Smederevo. 126 While this career trajectory seems linear and reminiscent of Stoianovich’s five-stage approach, many other mer­ chants simultaneously had various jobs. Mikhail Madzharov’s father of Koprivshtitsa mixed abacılık (owning a shop with apprentices), çorapçılık (knitting, buying, and exporting socks), and celepçilik (owning and trad­ ing in sheep and buffaloes). 129 That is why the physical mobil­ ity was so pivotal.

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