Beyond Hegemony

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Beyond Hegemony is written by Darrow Schecter and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719060885 (ISBN 10) and 9780719060885 (ISBN 13).

Since the Enlightenment, liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal legitimacy comes in Marx's early writings on Rousseau and Hegel. In addition to examining Marx's critique of Kant, Hegel, and liberalism, Schecter investigates the reasons for the authoritarianism and breakdown of state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere claiming to put Marx's ideas on democracy and equality into practice.