Post-Marxism

Post-Marxism trend in philosophy and social theorybased on Karl Marx's writings and Marxism proper,and bypassing orthodox Marxism. Philosophically, post-Marxism counters derivationism and essentialism (for ex-ample, it does not see the State as an instrument that‘functions’ unambiguously and autonomously on behalfof the interests of a given class).[1] Recent overviewsof post-Marxism are provided by Ernesto Screpanti,[2]Göran Therborn,[3] and Gregory Meyerson.[4]

1 History

Post-Marxism dates from the late 1960s; several trendsand events of that period influenced its development. Theweakness of the Russian Communist Soviet paradigmbecame evident beyond Russia. This happened concur-rently with the occurrence internationally of the studentriots of 1968, the rise of Maoist theory, and the prolifera-tion of commercial television, which covered in its broad-casts the Vietnam War.

1.1 Semiology and discourse

When Roland Barthes began his sustained critique ofmass culture via semiology — the science of signs —and the book Mythologies, some Marxist philosophersbased their social criticism upon linguistics, semiotics,and discourse. Basing his approach on Barthes’ work,Baudrillard wrote For a Critique of the Political Economyof the Sign (1972), criticizing contemporary Marxism forignoring the sign value of its philosophic discourse.

2 Important post-Marxists• Giorgio Agamben

• Robert Kurz

• Michael Albert

• Alain Badiou

• Étienne Balibar

• Jason Barker

• Jean Baudrillard

• Zygmunt Bauman

• Cornelius Castoriadis

• Krisis Groupe

• Ágnes Heller

• Paul Hirst

• Barry Hindess

• John Holloway

• Fredric Jameson

• Abdullah Öcalan

• Boris Yuliyevich Kagarlitsky

• Ernesto Laclau

• Claude Lefort

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Chantal Mouffe

• Jean-Luc Nancy

• Jacques Rancière

• Ernesto Screpanti

• Gayatri Spivak

• Alexander Tarasov

• Göran Therborn

• Alain Touraine

• Alberto Toscano

• Slavoj Žižek

• Catharine MacKinnon

3 See also

• Arena (first series)

• Autonomism

• Budapest School (Lukács)

• Frankfurt School

• Marxism and Marxist philosophy

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2 6 EXTERNAL LINKS

• Neo-Marxism

• Neo-Marxian economics

• New Left Review

• Open Marxism

• Poststructuralism

• Rethinking Marxism

• Specters of Marx

4 Notes

[1] Iain Mclean & Alistair Mcmillan, The Concise OxfordDictionary of Politics (Article: State), Oxford UniversityPress, 2003

[2] “The Postmodern Crisis in Economics and the Revolutionagainst Modernism”, “Rethinking Marxism”, 2000

[3] From Marxism to Post-Marxism. London: Verso, 2008,208pp.

[4] Meyerson, G. (2009). Post-Marxism as Compromise For-mation. Retrieved from: http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/Meyerson.pdf

5 References

• Imanol Galfarsoro: "(Post)Marxismoa, kultura etaeragiletasuna: Ibilbide historiko labur bat” in AlaitzAizpuru(koord.), Euskal Herriko pentsamenduarengida, Bilbo, UEU 2012. ISBN 978-84-8438-435-9

• Simon Tormey & Jules Townshend, Key Thinkersfrom Critical Theory to Post-Marxism, Pine ForgePress, 2006.

• Sim, Stuart. Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History,Routledge, 2002.

• Shenfield, Stephen. VLADISLAV BUGERA: POR-TRAIT OF A POST-MARXIST THINKER

• el-Ojeili, Chamsy. Post-Marxism with Substance:Castoriadis and the Autonomy Project, in New Po-litical Science, 32:2, June 2001, pp. 225–239.

• el-Ojeili C. After post-socialism: Social theory,utopia and the work of castoriadis in a globalage, Antepodium: Online Journal of World Affairs(2011), pp. 1–16.

6 External links• Robert Kurz: Postmarxismus und Arbeitsfetisch:

Krisis Nr. 17, 1995 (German)

• Oliver Marchart, Beantwortung der Frage: Washeißt Post-Marxismus?, Eintrag für Vladimir Mala-chov, Vadim Filatov: Sovremennaja zapadnajafilosofia, Moscow 1998 (German)

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