Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre

A Note on Selection and Annotation

A Bibliography of Works by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1953–1974

Chapter One Extracts from Marxism: An Interpretation

Chapter Two Marxist Tracts

Chapter Three On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy

Chapter Four The Algebra of the Revolution

Chapter Five Notes from the Moral Wilderness

Chapter Six Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago

Chapter Seven Marcuse, Marxism and the Monolith

Chapter Eight The Straw Man of the Age

Chapter Nine The 'New Left'

Chapter Ten What is Marxist Theory For?

Chapter Eleven From MacDonald to Gaitskell

Chapter Twelve Communism and British Intellectuals

Chapter Thirteen Freedom and Revolution

Chapter Fourteen Breaking the Chains of Reason

Chapter Fifteen Is a Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible?

Chapter Sixteen The Man who Answered the Irish Question

Chapter Seventeen Culture and Revolution

Chapter Eighteen Marxists and Christians

Chapter Nineteen Rejoinder to Left Reformism

Chapter Twenty Congo, Katanga and the UNO

Chapter Twenty-One Sartre as a Social Theorist

Chapter Twenty-Two The Sleepwalking Society: Britain in the Sixties

Chapter Twenty-Three Open Letter to a Right-Wing Young Socialist

Chapter Twenty-Four [The New Capitalism and the British Working Class]

Chapter Twenty-Five C. Wright Mills

Chapter Twenty-Six Going into Europe

Chapter Twenty-Seven Prediction and Politics

Chapter Twenty-Eight True Voice

Chapter Twenty-Nine Trotsky in Exile

Chapter Thirty Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning

Chapter Thirty-One Marx

Chapter Thirty-Two The Socialism of R.H. Tawney

Chapter Thirty-Three Marxist Mask and Romantic Face: Lukács on Thomas Mann

Chapter Thirty-Four Pascal and Marx: on Lucien Goldmann's Hidden God

Chapter Thirty-Five Recent Political Thought

Chapter Thirty-Six Herbert Marcuse

Chapter Thirty-Seven How Not to Write About Stalin

Chapter Thirty-Eight How to Write About Lenin – and How Not To

Chapter Thirty-Nine The Strange Death of Social Democratic England

Chapter Forty In Place of Harold Wilson?

Chapter Forty-One Marxism of the Will

Chapter Forty-Two Mr Wilson's Pragmatism

Chapter Forty-Three Tell Me Where You Stand on Kronstadt

Chapter Forty-Four Irish Mythologies

Chapter Forty-Five Sunningdale: a 'Colonial' Solution

Chapter Forty-Six Irish Confl icts and British Illusions

Epilogue. 1953, 1968, 1995: Three Perspectives

References

Index