Introduction to a Symposium on <em>The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought</em>

Abstract

In the decade before his death Raymond Williams frequently referred to the need for "resources for a journey of hope" that would enable socialists to continue the "shared search" for human emancipation in spite of all the obstacles posed by the reality of capitalism and of the first attempts to create socialism. In Cornel West's Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991) constitutes such a resource of hope. It is an attempt to reclaim the cause of morality for progressive thought by following Marx himself (at his best) in radically historicizing moral questions.

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