Socialism and Marxist theory

2010 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory

World Economic Crisis and Scenarios of Post-crisis Development: Marxist Analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
A. Buzgalin ◽  
A. Kolganov
Keyword(s):  
State Regulation ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Marxist Analysis ◽  
World Economic ◽  
First World ◽  
World Economic Crisis

Implications of the modern Marxist theory create the opportunity to show the inevitability, the reasons and the main features of the first world crisis of the XXI century. It has been generated by deregulation of economy, which caused the ‘classical’ crisis of overproduction, and by the new contradictions of late capitalism, in particular, by persistent over-accumulation of capital and by the excessive development of the transactional sector, of the fictitious financial capital and its isolation from the real sector. Marxist analysis of social interests and contradictions shows that anti-crisis measures require not only increasing of state regulation, but also determining on behalf of whom and in the interests of what social groups this regulation will be realized. The authors propose to do this on behalf of the financial capital and in the interests of citizens, but also formulate the neoconservative scenario of post-crisis development.

Karl Marx’s Legacy: The Historical Overview

2007 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
R. Nureev
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Marxism

The article is devoted to the history of reception and interpretation of the ideas of Marx and Engels. The author considers the reasons for divergence between Marxist and neoclassical economic theories. He also analyzes the ways of vulgarization of Marx’s theory and the making of Marxist voluntarism. It is shown that the works of Marx and Engels had a certain potential for their over-simplified interpretations. The article also considers academic ("Western") Marxism and evaluates the prospects of Marxist theory in the future.

The Attempt to Author the World: How Intellectualism Denies the Individual

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Wheelock
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Existential Theory ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Existential Issues

Although primarily known as a feminist scholar and author of such works as She Came to Stay and The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir contributed heavily to French existential thought. The two writings upon which this paper focuses, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Woman Destroyed, deal with the existential issues involved in human interactions and personal relationships. The Ethics of Ambiguity, famous as an exploration of the ethical code created by existential theory, begins with a criticism of Marxism and the ways in which it deviates from existentialism. Similarly, the first of the three short stories that make up de Beauvoir’s fictional work The Woman Destroyed follows the French intelligentsia and their similarities and digressions from Marxist and existential thought. In this paper, I seek to analyze Simone de Beauvoir’s criticism of Marxist theory in The Ethics of Ambiguity and its transformation into the critique of intellectualism found twenty years later in The Woman Destroyed. I will investigate Marxism’s alleged attempts to constrain the group it wishes to lead and the motivation behind these actions. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of the efficacy of fiction as a medium for de Beauvoir’s philosophy.

TIGA TEORI KLASIK YANG MENJADI GRAND THEORY PADA AWAL MASA PERKEMBANGAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN SOCIAL

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwandi S. Sangadji
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Grand Theory

Marxist theory merupakan suatu teori yang terutama berhubungan dengan tingkat struktur sosial tentang kenyataan sosial. Teori ini menekankan pada saling ketergantungan yang tinggi antara struktur sosial dan kondisi materil, dimana individu harus menyesuaikan dirinya supaya tetap hidup dan memenuhi pelbagai kebutuhannya. Penekanan Marx pada penyesuaikan diri dengan lingkungan materil serta sumber-sumber yang dibutuhkan untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan dan keinginan manusia, merupakan satu catatan yang penting mengenai realisme praktis dalam analisa teoritisnya. Weber mengakui bahwa ilmu-ilmu sosial harus berkaitan dengan fenomena spiritual atau ideal, sebagai ciri-ciri khas dari manusia yang tidak berada dalam jangkauan bidang ilmu-ilmu alam. Akan tetapi, pembedaan yang diperlakukan tentang subyek dan obyek tidak harus melibatkan pengorbanan obyektivitas di dalam ilmu-ilmu sosial, atau pembedaan yang menyertakan intuisi sebagai pengganti untuk analisis sebab-musabab yang dapat ditiru. Durkheim berulang kali menekankan di dalam tulisan-tulisannya bahwa sosiologi itu sebagian besar tetap merupakan suatu disiplin filsafat, yang terdiri dari sejumlah generalisasi heterogen yang mencakup segala aspek, serta yang lebih tertumpu pada latar belakang logis dari aturan-aturan a priori dari pada studi empiris yang sistematis. Sosiologi, menurut Durkheim dalam Suicide, masih dalam taraf membangun dengan sistesis-sintesis filsafat

scholarly journals Cornel West and Marxist Humanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052098831
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
Marxist Humanism ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Cornel West

Humanity has experienced an explosion of anti-humanism in the form of authoritarian capitalism, postmodern filter bubbles, and global problems. Marxist/Socialist Humanism is the proper answer to the deep crisis of humanity. In this context, this article asks ‘How can Cornel West’s works inform a contemporary Marxist humanist theory of society?’ Taking West’s works as a starting point, what are the key elements of a Marxist humanist theory of society? Cornel West is one of the leading critical intellectuals today. His work has fused anti-racist theory, Black Liberation Theology, Marxist theory, pragmatism, and existentialism. This article especially focuses on West’s understanding of humanism and culture. It shows how his works and praxis can inform the reinvigoration of Marxist Humanism in the age of authoritarian capitalism as a socialist response. West’s thought can and should also inform the analysis of alienation, exploitation, domination, culture, the public sphere, the critique of ideology, and popular culture.

Toward a Marxist Concept of Community

SATS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andreas Beck Holm
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Marxist Concept ◽  
Alternative Configuration

AbstractIn this paper, it is argued that even though the concept of community does not play a significant role in Marxist theory, Marxism needs a notion of community, and the paper sets out to theorize how to make sense of this concept in a Marxist theoretical setting. The paper claims that Althusser’s philosophy, especially his elaboration of the concept of practice, may assist us in this task, and it sets out to explore what can be gained by redefining community in terms of practice. In Althusser’s theory, practice and ideology are very closely linked. While recognizing the importance of Althusser’s theory of ideology, the paper then subsequently explores an alternative configuration of the concepts community and ideology. Finally, it is claimed that this analysis may help us to better understand ideologies such as racism and nationalism.

A Marxist Educated Kant: Philosophy of History in Kant and the Frankfurt School

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-540
Author(s):  
Hauke Brunkhorst
Keyword(s):  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
90Th Birthday ◽  
The Many

AbstractIn a lecture that Habermas gave on his 90th birthday he ironically, but with serious intent, called a good Kant a sufficiently Marxist educated Kant. This dialectical Kant is the only one of the many Kants who maintains the idea of an unconditioned moral autonomy but completely within evolution, history and in the middle of societal class and other struggles. The article tries to show what Kant could have learned from his later critics to enable him to become a member of the Frankfurt School’s neo-Marxist theory of society.

The Multitude and the Many-Headed Hydra: Autonomist Marxist Theory and Labor History

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 170-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verity Burgmann
Keyword(s):  
Labor History ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Internal Momentum ◽  
Autonomist Marxism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

AbstractThe autonomist Marxist critique of determinist Marxism offers even more valuable insights for labor historians than that mounted by earlier antideterminists, such as Sartre and Thompson, who emphasized proletarian agency to counter determinist orthodoxy in which the accumulative logic of capital unilaterally shapes the world. Autonomist Marxism is more far-reaching. It places labor at the very beginning of the labor-capital dialectic: Labor can exist independently of capital, but capital needs to command labor to ensure profit; therefore, capitalist development does not occur due to internal momentum but in reaction to labor's tendency to unloose itself from capital. Linebaugh and Rediker offer a similar hypothesis in exploring the myth of the many-headed hydra—and demonstrate the fruitfulness of such an approach. By contrast, the notion of the multitude in Hardt and Negri'sEmpirehas not been well received by labor historians due to its inexplicable abstraction when read in isolation from other autonomist texts. This article attempts to rescue the ideas of autonomist Marxist philosophers, especially Toni Negri, from the enormous condescension of labor history.

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