Book Reviews : The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx. By DAVID McLELLAN. (New York: Fred erick A. Praeger, 1969. Pp. 161. $8.50.) Marx and the Intellectual: A Set of Post-Ideological Essays. By LEWIS S. FEUER. (New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. (Anchor Books), 1969. Pp. 301. $1.45. )

• Author: Richard Ashcraft
• Date: 01 December 1970
• Published date: 01 December 1970
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300435
• Subject Matter: Articles

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to him to be the most important conclusions regarding the nature and significance
of ideology. Thus the book very appropriately closes by offering answers to some
of the old questions and asking some new ones. Ideology, Politics, and Political
Theory will provide courses with a provocative and significant theoretical frame-
work and is worth the attention of all students of political thought.
EARL L. SULLIVAN
University of Portland
The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx. By DAVID McLELLAN. (New York: Fred-
erick A. Praeger, 1969. Pp. 161. $8.50.)
Marx and the Intellectual: A Set of Post-Ideological Essays. By LEWIS S. FEUER.
(New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. (Anchor Books), 1969. Pp. 301.
$1.45. )
The motives that move men to write books are multifarious. In general, they
give to the work its &dquo;coloration,&dquo; but, regrettably, they occasionally destroy alto-
gether its value for the reader. Such a work is the collection of essays by Lewis
Feuer, in which the author’s strident polemics dominate the subject matter beyond
the limits of acceptable scholarship. As space is limited, I must allow several exam-
ples to stand for many more which could be cited in support of this damning indict-
ment of the book.
Feuer argues that Marx abandoned the notion of economic class conflict in
favor of war as the prime mover of history and to support this his footnote refers
to the Class Struggles in France (International Publishers, p. 113 ) . What Marx
says there, however, is not that class conflict is replaced by war as an historical
factor, but that class conflict leads (France) into a world war. Feuer quotes Engels’
comment that &dquo;History has proved us wrong&dquo; (Ibid., p. 16) as proof that Marx
&dquo;turned in desperation more and more to war as the redeeming agency in history.&dquo;
But what Engels is referring to is the notion that &dquo;the revolution of a minority&dquo;
could be turned into &dquo;the revolution of the majority&dquo; which he and Marx had
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