dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Peters, Matthijs | |
dc.contributor.author | Hijwegen, J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-23T18:00:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-23T18:00:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/35700 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a written critique of David. W. Lovell’s From Marx to Lenin: An Evaluation of Marx’s
Responsibility for Soviet Authoritarianism. It summarizes Lovell’s arguments and conclusions and
criticizes them for leaving out some of Marx’s most notable critics and their views. I seek to demonstrate
how Lovell’s work is an example of a wrong approach to philosophical responsibility, both because it
seeks to link outcomes to a man instead of to ideas, and because it does not engage with these ideas
sufficiently. I will conclude that Lovell’s mistakes are an example of the causes behind Marxism’s
continued popularity, and object to an a-moral analysis of philosophical theory. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 487690 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | An Investigation of Marxism’s Responsibility for
Authoritarianism in the Soviet Union | |
dc.type.content | Bachelor Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Moral Responsability, Marxism, Historical Analysis | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Liberal Arts and Sciences | |