From Rousseau to Lenin

This is the first of Lucio Colletti''s books to be translated into English, in which he considers the scientific character of Marxism. In contrast to the pre-occupation with Hegel and his contribution to the formation of Marx''s thought, Colletti goes back on the one hand to the founders of political economy and on the other to Rousseau. In Rousseau''s critique of ''civil society'' Colletti isolat...