Grand failure: Leninist legacy -- Stalinist catastrophe -- Stagnant Stalinism -- Paradox of reform -- Soviet disunion: From vision to revisionism -- Ten dynamics of disunion -- Evolving or decaying communism? -- Organic rejection: Ideological transportation and transmutation -- Polish society's...

"In this combative and controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical...