Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd ii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4444 PPMM Historical Materialism Book Series Editorial Board Paul Blackledge, Leeds – Sébastien Budgen, Paris Michael Krätke, Amsterdam – Stathis Kouvelakis, London – Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam China Miéville, London – Paul Reynolds, Lancashire Peter Thomas, Amsterdam VOLUME 19 BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd iiii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism Selected Writings 1953–1974 Edited and with an introduction by Paul Blackledge & Neil Davidson LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd iiiiii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM This book is printed on acid-free paper. A CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 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PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd iivv 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM To the memory of Michael Kidron (1930–2003) BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd vv 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd vvii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM Contents Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... xi Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre .................................... xiii A Note on Selection and Annotation ........................................................ li A Bibliography of Works by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1953–1974 .............. lvii Chapter One Extracts from Marxism: An Interpretation ..................... 1 Chapter Two Marxist Tracts ..................................................................... 25 Chapter Three On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy ......................... 33 Chapter Four The Algebra of the Revolution ....................................... 41 Chapter Five Notes from the Moral Wilderness .................................. 45 Chapter Six Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago .................................................. 69 Chapter Seven Marcuse, Marxism and the Monolith ......................... 77 Chapter Eight The Straw Man of the Age ............................................. 81 Chapter Nine The ‘New Left’ .................................................................. 87 Chapter Ten What is Marxist Theory For? ............................................ 95 Chapter Eleven From MacDonald to Gaitskell .................................... 105 Chapter Twelve Communism and British Intellectuals ..................... 115 BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd vviiii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4477 PPMM viii • Contents Chapter Thirteen Freedom and Revolution .......................................... 123 Chapter Fourteen Breaking the Chains of Reason .............................. 135 Chapter Fifteen Is a Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible? ................... 167 Chapter Sixteen The Man who Answered the Irish Question .......... 171 Chapter Seventeen Culture and Revolution ......................................... 175 Chapter Eighteen Marxists and Christians ........................................... 179 Chapter Nineteen Rejoinder to Left Reformism ................................. 187 Chapter Twenty Congo, Katanga and the UNO .................................. 197 Chapter Twenty-One Sartre as a Social Theorist ................................. 201 Chapter Twenty-Two The Sleepwalking Society: Britain in the Sixties .......................................................................................................... 209 Chapter Twenty-Three Open Letter to a Right-Wing Young Socialist ....................................................................................................... 215 Chapter Twenty-Four [The New Capitalism and the British Working Class] .......................................................................................... 221 Chapter Twenty-Five C. Wright Mills ................................................... 241 Chapter Twenty-Six Going into Europe ................................................ 247 Chapter Twenty-Seven Prediction and Politics ................................... 249 Chapter Twenty-Eight True Voice .......................................................... 263 Chapter Twenty-Nine Trotsky in Exile ................................................. 267 BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd vviiiiii 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4488 PPMM Contents • ix Chapter Thirty Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning ...................... 277 Chapter Thirty-One Marx ......................................................................... 291 Chapter Thirty-Two The Socialism of R.H. Tawney .......................... 299 Chapter Thirty-Three Marxist Mask and Romantic Face: Lukács on Thomas Mann ...................................................................................... 305 Chapter Thirty-Four Pascal and Marx: on Lucien Goldmann’s Hidden God ................................................................................................ 317 Chapter Thirty-Five Recent Political Thought ..................................... 329 Chapter Thirty-Six Herbert Marcuse ..................................................... 339 Chapter Thirty-Seven How Not to Write About Stalin ...................... 349 Chapter Thirty-Eight How to Write About Lenin – and How Not To .......................................................................................................... 355 Chapter Thirty-Nine The Strange Death of Social Democratic England ....................................................................................................... 361 Chapter Forty In Place of Harold Wilson? ............................................ 369 Chapter Forty-One Marxism of the Will ............................................... 373 Chapter Forty-Two Mr Wilson’s Pragmatism ...................................... 381 Chapter Forty-Three Tell Me Where You Stand on Kronstadt ......... 387 Chapter Forty-Four Irish Mythologies ................................................... 395 Chapter Forty-Five Sunningdale: a ‘Colonial’ Solution ..................... 401 BBLLAACCKKLLEEDDGGEE__ff11__ii--llxxvvii..iinndddd iixx 11//2222//22000088 55::2233::4488 PPMM