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Title: Marx's Proletariat: The Making of a Myth by David W. Lovell ISBN: 0-415-00116-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $67.00

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Summary: Class Struggles
Comment: The complex history of Marx's thought is often clarified by its critics. This work explores the core idea of the subject for a marxist and takes on Marx at the very foundation and beginning of his thinking, as his ideas crystalize from the early socialist movements of the Restoration Era. It is a tight analysis, and useful, if one that backfires, showing the problems, and yet the brilliance of the tactics adopted by Marx. The myth of the proletariat turns out to be no myth at all, and clarified by this kind of exposure of its starting point. Here we can see Marxism near the spectrum of the various gestating, and sometimes conservative, socialisms of the era. One might read Spengler's Prussianism and Socialism or an account of the fascist class war of the twenties to sense the rightness of Marx's viewpoint. And yet the myth of the proletariat is another of its exploitations, and the reality of Bolshevism and the fate of the proletariat in that context suggests the left has little interest in the proletariat, except as a pawn in its own game of domination, mephistopheles to the working faust.