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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

Marxism is a theory which originated in the context of nineteenth-century industrialised Europe. Despite its European origins, Marxism has actually found greatest significance as a doctrine for change in the context of the underdeveloped peasant societies of Asia. This paradox has only been resolved through adaptation of Marxism to suit the specific features of particular Asian societies. There has consequently been a differentiation of Marxism along national lines. In this book, first published in 1985, the theoretical and practical implications for this national differentiation of a 'univers

These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses Marxism as a cultural-political problematic. Contending that Marxism is deeply embedded in specific cultural practices, the contributors illuminate Marxism's contribution to discussions of labour in post-industrial capitalism, to controversies surrounding compulsory heterosexuality and queer theory, and to debates about the institutionalization and

Book reviewed in this article: Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order, edited by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, and Carole Biewener. New York: Guilford, 1995, 560 pages. Cloth $49.95; paper $19.95. After Marxism, by Ronald Aronson. New York: Guilford, 1995, 321 pages. Paper $18.95. The Semiotic Self: by Norbert Wiley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 250 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of'Cosmetic Surgery, by Kathy Davis. New York and London: Routledge, 1995, 206 pages. Cloth $55.00; paper $16.95. Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk, by Kenneth F. Ferraro. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, 179 pages. Paper, $19.95 Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design, by David Gartman. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 264 pages. Paper, $17.95. Berefi of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal, by Eugene Halton. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995, 304 pages. Cloth, $39.95. A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930, by Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960, by Elizabeth A. Fones‐Wolf. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 307 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $16.95. The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations, by Calvin Morrill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Cloth, $29.95.

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)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana penejalasan dari epistemology Marxisme Ortodoks. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian jenis historis dengan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Jenis data penelitian ini adalah sekunder dengan teknik pengumpulan data Studi Pustaka mengenai penjelasan sejarah perkambangan Marxisme hingga penjelasan Marxisme Ortodoks serta analisis data penelitian ini mereduksi data hingga memverifikasi data menjadi sebuah kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian Studi Pustaka Epistemologi Marxisme Ortodoks adalah ideologi yang menjelaskan bahwa menuju jalan revolusi dengan mencampurkan pemahaman sosialisme dan demokrasi maka dari itu Marxisme Ortodoks tidak membuat gagasan partai tunggal atas nama massa. Konsepsinya demokrasi dalam Marxisme Ortodoks didasarkan pada hubungan bebas dalam memproduksi. Marxisme Ortodoks memberikan prioritaskan setiap individu dan menekan kan relasi sosial yang tidak manusiawi dengan mengangkat segi ekonomi sehingga masyarakat yang masih berkembang untuk tujuan mereka yang akan menjadi sasaran kemajuan. Marxisme Ortodoks juga menjelaskan kebijakan jalan parlementer dan atas dasar hak pilih umum harus ditempuh. Marxisme Ortodoks juga cita – cita masyarakat sosial yang baru dengan metode pembangunan material teknologi adalah bagian utama perubahan daam structural masyarakat. tetapi Marxisme Ortodoks dalam pemikiran mereka tetap dianggap sebagai ideologi varian kiri dari tradisi yang terbaru.

It has been said that the normal English reaction to uncomfortable facts of life, such as Marxism, is an embarrassed but determined silence. That anyone should experience a desire to enquire into ideas as such, and to probe into the motives influencing them, seems extraordinary. Marxism is, however, subjected to a close study in this book, first published in 1957, and the collected essays attempt the task of combining certain elements in the heritage of modern culture with the insights of Marxism. There can be no vital thinking for our age that does not do justice to both traditions.

Marx described the usual image of capitalism presented by bourgeois ideology as not so much falsifying the facts, but interpreting them in a superficially plausible way which reverses their actual meaning. Without this perspective, the social sciences inevitably present a one-sided analysis of the events they study, whose effect is to disguise the actual workings of capitalism. Marxism, the major alternative form of analysis, should be included in the curricula of every U. W. H. Stoddard.