Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary.(Review) (book review)

Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary. By Richard F. Hamilton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 288p. $59.95.

A distinguished political sociologist, Richard F. Hamilton is perhaps best known for Who Voted for Hitler? (1982). More recently his attention has shifted to the broader methodological issues raised by the empirical claims of sociological macrotheories. This critical study of three versions of Marxism--the original statement by Marx and Engels and two rival reformulations, by Eduard Bernstein at the end of the nineteenth century and by ...

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