Tradition
Post-Marxism
Overview
Post-Marxism is a perspective in critical social theory which radically reinterprets Marxism, countering its alleged association with economism, historical determinism, anti-humanism, and class reductionism, whilst remaining committed to the construction of socialism. Most notably, post-Marxists are anti-essentialist, rejecting the primacy of class struggle, and instead focus on building radical democracy. Post-Marxism can be considered a synthesis of post-structuralist frameworks and neo-Marxist analysis, in response to the decline of the New Left after the protests of 1968. In a broader sense, post-Marxism can refer to Marxists or Marxian-adjacent theories which break with the old worker's movements and socialist states entirely, in a similar sense to post-leftism, and accept that the era of mass revolution premised on the Fordist worker is potentially over.
The term "post-Marxism" first appeared in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theoretical work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985). Post-Marxism is a wide category not well-defined, containing the work of Laclau and Mouffe on the one hand, and some strands of autonomism and open Marxism, post-structuralism, cultural studies, ex-Marxists and Deleuzian-inspired 'politics of difference' on the other. Recent overviews of post-Marxism are provided by Ernesto Screpanti, Göran Therborn, and Gregory Meyerson. Prominent post-Marxist journals include New Formations, Constellations, Endnotes, Crisis and Critique and Arena.
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Speaking honestly, however, the arguments which Kant offers for his thesis and antithesis are mere shams of demonstration. The thing to be proved is invariably implied in the assumption he starts from, and the speciousness of his proofs is only due to his prolix and apagogic mode of procedure. Yet it was, and still is, a great achievement for the Critical philosophy, when it exhibited these antinomies: for in this…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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These our philosophic ideas have had an incubation period of about twenty years since they were first given to the world in Marx's "Misere de la Philosophie" and the Communist Manifesto until they obtained a wider and wider influence through the publication of "Capital" and now find recognition and support far beyond the limits of Europe in all lands where a proletariat exists together with progressive scientific…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
States what Post-Marxism is.
Because thought has now become set forth as principle, and this at first presents a subjective appearance as being the subjective activity of thought, there now sets in (since the absolute is posited as subject) an age of subjective reflection; _i.e._ there begins in this period—which coincides with the disintegration of Greece in the Peloponnesian war—the principle of modern times.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Post-Marxism
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Slavoj Žižek
- Eurocentrism
- Marxism
- The Guardian
- Nancy Fraser
- Post-structuralism
- Antonio Negri
- Soviet Union
- Socialism
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Social theory
- Vietnam War
- Baruch Spinoza
- Fredric Jameson
- Cultural studies
- Structural Marxism
- Straw man
- Pluto Press
- Neo-Marxism
- Étienne Balibar
- New Left
Place in the tradition
Part of Italian philosophy.