Freedom, desire and revolution: Alasdair MacIntyre's early Marxist ethics

History of Political Thought

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 696-720

  Blackledge, Paul ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (106)

1. A. MacIntyre 'Politics, Philosophy and the Common Good', in The MacIntyre Reader, ed. K. Knight (Cambridge, 1998), p. 235.
2. Indeed, the two collections on his ideas that have been published do not address his early Marxism except tangentially (After MacIntyre, ed. J. Horton and S. Mendus (Cambridge, 1994);
3. Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. M. Murphy (Cambridge, 2003)).
4. This failing is magnified in Knight's selection of MacIntyre's work: The MacIntyre Reader. For, while Knight is to be congratulated for his inclusion in this selection of MacIntyre's 1958-9 essay 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', he misrepresents the power of that essay through his decision to locate it simply as a misguided precursor to his later arguments rather than as a key constituent of a very different project. In contrast to the bulk of MacIntyre scholarship, McMylor's introduction to MacIntyre's moral theory engages with his early Marxism, but only though a very limited reading of his output in the late 1950s and early 1960s (P.McMylor, Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity (London, 1994)).
5. A. MacIntyre, After Virtue (London, 2nd edn., 1985), pp. 262-3.
6. A. MacIntyre, 'The Theses on Feuerbach: A Road Not Taken', in The MacIntyre Reader, ed. Knight, p. 232
7. (first published in Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice, ed. C. Gould and R. Cohen (Hingham, 1994).
8. K. Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme [1875], in Karl Marx: The First International and After, ed. D. Fernbach (Harmondsworth, 1974), pp. 343-4.
9. A. Wood, Karl Marx (London, 1981), pp. 130-2.
10. R. Peffer, Marxism, Morality and Social Justice (Princeton, 1990), p. 46.
11. K. Marx, Notes on Indian History (London, 1950), pp. 110, 124, 127, 163.
12. S. Lukes, Marxism and Morality (Oxford, 1985), p. 29.
13. N. Geras, 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', in Marxist Theory, ed. A. Callinicos (Oxford, 1989), p. 232.
14. Geras is commenting on Marx's claim that 'the realm of freedom really begins only where labour determined by necessity and external expediency ends... The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite' (K. Marx, Capital, Vol. III [1894], (Harmondsworth, 1981), p. 959.
15. Geras, 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', p. 245.
16. Geras, 'The Controversy about Marx and Justice', Ibid., p. 264.
17. McMylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, p. 12.
18. A. MacIntyre, Marxism: An Interpretation (London, 1953), p. 18.
19. A. MacIntyre, Marxism: An Interpretation Ibid., pp. 45, 10.
20. A. MacIntyre, Marxism: An Interpretation bid., pp. 109, 69.
21. P. Blackledge, 'Reform, Revolution and the Problem of Organisation in the First New Left', Contemporary Politics, 10 (1) (2004), pp. 21-36, p. 23.
22. P. Sedgwick, 'The Two New Lefts', in The Left in Britain, ed. D. Widgery (Harmondsworth, 1976).
23. This essay was originally published in International Socialism, 17 (1964).
24. E.P.Thompson, 'Socialist Humanism', The New Reasoner, 1 (Summer 1957), pp. 105, 138.
25. E.P.Thompson, The New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 125.
26. E.P.Thompson, The New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 121.
27. E.P.Thompson, The New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 124.
28. H. Hanson, 'An Open Letter to Edward Thompson', The New Reasoner, 2 (Autumn 1957), p. 88.
29. H. Hanson, The New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 79.
30. A. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', in The MacIntyre Reader, ed. Knight, pp. 31-2.
31. Originally published in two parts in New Reasoner, 1 (Winter 1958-9), pp. 90-100
32. and New Reasoner, 8 (Spring 1959), pp. 89-98.
33. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 38.
34. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 32.
35. New Reasoner, Ibid., pp. 34-5.
36. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 37.
37. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 39.
38. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 40.
39. New Reasoner, Ibid., p. 41.
40. New Reasoner, Ibid., pp. 43, 41.
41. A. MacIntyre, The Unconscious (London, 2nd edn., 2004), p. 62. The first edition of this book was published in 1958 - the new edition contains a substantial new preface.
42. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', p. 46.
43. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 43.
44. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 44.
45. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 43.
46. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 46.
47. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 45.
48. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 48.
49. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., pp. 42, 49.
50. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', Ibid., p. 47.
51. E.P. Thompson, 'At the Point of Decay', in Out of Apathy, ed. E.P. Thompson (London, 1960), pp. 5-8.
52. E.P. Thompson, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 10.
53. E.P. Thompson, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 14.
54. A. MacIntyre, 'Breaking the Chains of Reason', in Out of Apathy, ed. Thompson, pp. 195-240, p. 198.
55. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 199.
56. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 200.
57. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 201.
58. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 208.
59. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 210.
60. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 217.
61. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 220.
62. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 225.
63. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 230.
64. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 235.
65. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., pp. 230, 238.
66. A. MacIntyre, Out of Apathy, Ibid., p. 240.
67. A. MacIntyre, 'Freedom and Revolution', Labour Review (February/March 1960), pp. 19-24, p. 20.
68. A. MacIntyre, Labour Review Ibid., p. 22.
69. A. MacIntyre, Labour Review, Ibid., p. 23.
70. A. MacIntyre, Labour Review, Ibid., p. 24.
71. L. Goldmann, The Hidden God (London, 1964), p. 301.
72. A. MacIntyre, 'Pascal and Marx: On Lucien Goldmann's Hidden God', in A. MacIntyre, Against the Self-images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy (London, 1971), pp. 76-87, p. 84.
73. A. MacIntyre, 'Trotsky in Exile', in MacIntyre, Against the Self-images of the Age pp. 52-9, pp. 57-8.
74. This essay was first published in Encounter in 1963. For International Socialism's reading of Trotsky see T. Cliff, 'The Nature of Stalinist Russia' [1948], in T. Cliff, Marxist Theory after Trotsky (London, 2003), p. 1.
75. While MacIntyre's name was removed from the list of editors of International Socialism in 1968 - as the organization sought to disassociate itself from his actions against student radicals in Essex - he had in fact ceased to involve himself with the organization some two or three years earlier.
76. A. MacIntyre, 'Culture and Revolution', International Socialism, 5 (1961), p.28.
77. A. MacIntyre, 'The Sleepwalking Society', Socialist Review (May 1962), p. 5.
78. A. MacIntyre, 'Rejoinder to Left Reformism', International Socialism, 6 (1961), pp. 20-3, p. 21.
79. A. MacIntyre, 'Prediction and Politics', International Socialism, 13(1963), p. 17.
80. A. MacIntyre, International Socialism, Ibid., p. 18.
81. MacIntyre, 'Notes from the Moral Wilderness', pp. 39-40.
82. MacIntyre, 'Rejoinder to Left Reformism', p. 23.
83. A. MacIntyre, Unpublished paper given to International Socialism day school in 1963, p. 6.
84. A. MacIntyre, 'Herbert Marcuse', Survey No 62 (January 1967), p. 43.
85. T. Cliff and C. Barker, Incomes Policy, Legislation and Shop Stewards (London, 1966), pp. 128-36. For an earlier elaboration of a similar argument,
86. see M. Kidron, 'Rejoinder to Left-Reformism', International Socialism, 7 (1961), p. 15. Kidron's aim in this essay was to bolster MacIntyre's critique of Collins noted above. Thanks to Chris Harman for this reference.
87. MacIntyre, 'Rejoinder to Left Reformism', p. 23.
88. A. MacIntyre, Marcuse (London, 1970), p. 72.
89. MacIntyre, 'Prediction and Politics', p. 19.
90. A. MacIntyre, 'Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning', International Socialism, 15 (1963), p. 8.
91. MacIntyre, Unpublished paper, p. 20.
92. MacIntyre, 'Breaking the Chains of Reason', p. 238.
93. MacIntyre, Unpublished paper, p. 20.
94. D. Hailas, Trotsky's Marxism (London, 1979), p. 104.
95. A. MacIntyre, 'Marx', in Western Political Philosophers: A Background Book, ed. M. Cranston (London, 1964), pp. 99-108, p. 106.
96. A. MacIntyre, Secularization and Moral Change (London, 1967), p. 75.
97. A. MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics (London, 1966), pp. 210-14.
98. Cf P. Sedgwick, 'The Ethical Dance - A Review+ of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue', in The Socialist Register, ed. M. Eve and D. Musson (London, 1982).
99. MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics, pp. 268-9.
100. A. MacIntyre, Marxism and Christianity (London, 1968).
101. R. Kuper, 'Marxism and Christianity', International Socialism, 42 (1970), p. 35.
102. MacIntyre, Marcuse, pp. 61, 89.
103. MacIntyre, Marcuse, Ibid., p. 91.
104. A. MacIntyre, Marxism and Christianity (London, 1995), p. xx.
105. A. MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals (London, 1999), p. x.
106. MacIntyre, The Unconscious, pp. 27, 114.