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Marxism without Marxism
Contends that Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993) is the political project of a "man of the Left." It is suggested that Derrida's Algerian background influences both his association with the antihumanism of Marxism & the institutional nature of deconstruction. Although he claims deconstruction is of no interest except as a radicalization, Derrida must know it has not functioned in any way like radicalized Marxism, but rather as an inferior kind of textual politics at a time when academic leftists needed a new form of dissent. The two sides of deconstruction -- reformist & ultraleftist -- are examined, & notions of deconstructed Marxism are compared to Marxist revisionism. It is suggested that Marxism has become more appealing to Derrida because of its marginality & the unattractiveness of political alternatives, maintaining that he is not concerned with an effective socialism, but angered by liberal-capitalist complacency. Derrida's avoidance of the real historical/theoretical manifestations of Marxism are examined, along with the critical, negative nature of his politics, & the absence of ontology or method within his "New International.". J. Lindroth
Is 'analytical Marxism' Marxism?
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 52, Heft Summer 88
ISSN: 0036-8237
IS ANALYTICAL MARXISM MARXISM?
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 191-214
ISSN: 0036-8237
MARXISM OR POST-MARXISM?
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 167, S. 107-123
ISSN: 0028-6060
THE MAJOR THESIS OF THE WRITINGS OF ERNESTO LACLAU AND CHANTAL MOUFFE IS THAT THE CORE OF ALL MARXIST THEORY IS BASED ON A NECESSITARIAN, DETERMINISTIC LOGIC THAT EMPHASIZES IRON LAWS, A STRICT SUCCESSION OF STAGES, THE INEVITABILITY OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION, AND SO FORTH. THIS LOGIC REDUCES COMPLEXITY AND LEADS TO AN ESSENTIALIST VIEW OF THE SOCIAL AND TO A CLOSED, MONISTIC TYPE OF THEORETICAL DISCOURSE. ALL ATTEMPTS TO SOFTEN MARXISM'S DETERMINISTIC CORE BY STRESSING INDETERMINACY, COMPLEXITY, THE IMPORTANCE OF AGENCY, AND THE RELATIVE AUTONOMY OF THE POLITICAL ARE SIMPLY AD HOC ADDITIONS TO A THEORETICAL EDIFICE THAT, IN ITS FOUNDATIONS, REMAINS IRRETRIEVABLY MONISTIC.
From Marxism to post-Marxism?
In: Radical thinkers
Introduction : our time and the Age of Marx -- Into the twenty-first century : the new parameters of global politics -- Twentieth-century Marxism and the dialectics of modernity -- After dialectics : radical social theory in the North at the dawn of the twenty-first century
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
In: Critique: journal of socialist theory, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 691-693
ISSN: 0301-7605
Marxism or post-marxism?
In: New left review: NLR, Heft Jan/Feb 88
ISSN: 0028-6060
Defends Marxist theory against Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (who replied in number 166 to a criticism of their work by Norman Geras in 163), while maintaining that there remains in Marxist conceptions of politics a reductionism that still needs correction. (Abstract amended)
A Future for Marxism or a Retreat from Marxism?
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 93-101
ISSN: 0036-8237
Marxism, Post-Marxism and the Implosion of Communism
In: Praxis international: a philosophical journal, Band 10, Heft 3-4, S. 205-212
ISSN: 0260-8448
In an attempt to understand revisionist Marxism & its relationship to current Soviet politics, the theoretical boundaries of authentic Marxism, revisionist, & post-Marxism are discussed & the evolution of communist ideology is traced, including socialist realism, real socialism, & perestroika (restructuring) of socialism. A theory of communist statism based on the structural control exercised by a statist ruling class over the state that is able to control the economy & other areas of culture is elaborated, concluding that Karl Marx's economic model fails in its attempt to explain communist statism as a sociopolitical formation; however, he is helpful in understanding the outcome of the struggle between capitalism & communism. W. Howard
Marxism Is Dead, Long Live Marxism!
In: Socialist review: SR, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 7-19
ISSN: 0161-1801
The claim that Marxism is responsible for the economic & political collapse of the communist states is refuted. Rather, it is argued that the stage of the "liberation" of Marxism is approaching. The phases of the transformation of state socialism into the actual conflict between forces & relations of production are examined using the example of the steel factories in Hungary. Contemporary ideological discourse in Hungary celebrates democracy while the ex-Party apparatchiks are becoming a capitalist class, & the oppositional parties disseminate chauvinism & anti-Semitism. It is predicted that the sale of public enterprises & rapid incorporation into the world market will create new forms of exploitation & underdevelopment. Solutions should be sought in new forms of democratic socialism. A. Devic
Aronson's Marxism Is Dead. Long Live Marxism
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 79-84
ISSN: 0893-5696
A response to Ronald Aronson's "Toward a Relativized Marxism" (1996/97 [see abstract 9816196]) suggests that Aronson's declaration for the death of Marxism is an indication of his own incomplete break from a particular type of Marxism -- classical modernist. While other Marxists have abandoned this stand, Aronson betrays his continued affiliation to it in his messianic declaration of its death. Aronson's shared predilection for rigidity with classical Marxism is taken to be symptomatic of a desire for historical certainty & a common cultural formation. It is contended that, rather than allowing Marxism to evolve & to change in line with new political & theoretical conditions, Aronson seems intent on confining it to official & now inadequate representations. To avoid this end, it is concluded that Marxists can best preserve the heroic moment of the past by moving forward without denying it. 4 References. D. M. Smith