• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary. By Richard F. Hamilton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 288p. $59.95
  • Contributor: Callinicos, Alex
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2001
  • Published in: American Political Science Review
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s000305540128201x
  • ISSN: 0003-0554; 1537-5943
  • Keywords: Political Science and International Relations ; Sociology and Political Science
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  • Description: <jats:p>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 methodolog- ical issues raised by the empirical claims of sociological macrotheories. This critical study of three versions of Marx- ism-the original statement by Marx and Engels and two rival reformulations, by Eduard Bernstein at the end of the nineteenth century and by Lenin during World War I-is to be seen in the light of this concern.</jats:p>