UG Post Marxism from praxis to theory

Whilst the need for social and political transformation in the modern world is clear, it isn’t clear just who or what the structural agency for this change will be. It still can be the working class, for the reasons Marx gave. But the mechanisms upon which marxist class politics rest seem to have failed. Some would question the relevance of Marx to the project of emancipation, consigning marxism to the past in the search for a revival of radical politics.Marxism is still geared to the political economy of an industrial capitalist past. For postmodernists, marxism fails to either recognize the new technologies of regulation and, tied to the past, proceeds to advance political programmes that only further processes of bureaucratisation and homogenisation. The 'evident truths' of Marxism as a political movement are considered to have been 'seriously challenged by an avalanche of historical mutations which have riven the ground on which those truths were constituted'. This study looks at the relation between marxism postmodernism with the specific intention of outlining the contours of a 'postmodern marxism', playing up the extent to which the end of Marx's emancipatory project is itself a POSTmodernity rather than an anti-modernity. Particularly important is the role of social identity and pluralisation within an overarching framework. Thus the attempt is made to address the crisis of marxism as opportunity as well as defeat. Whilst some thought that the collapse of the old soviet marxism would mean the end of marxism as such, the view taken here is that the result has been the flourishing of a new Marxism, the foundations of which have been laid by many hitherto ignored and marginalised thinkers in the past.

Antipode, 2003

Marx is nowadays widely recognized as a lucid and useful thinker of capitalism but, at the same, his political project is declared definitively failed. Such a diagnosis is rooted in the context of retreat of socialism and the worker’s movement that goes back to the late 1970s. The “crisis of Marxism”, declared by some of the main Marxist thinkers of that time, is the theoretical reflection of that conjuncture and “Post-Marxism” its immanent development. However, a turning point is reached when it appears that the Post-Marxist constellation is unable to stand to the challenges of the new era of globalized capitalism, strengthened by decades of neoliberalism. Despite the persistent weakness of the political movements claiming its legacy, Marxism still hosts a string a ambitious research projects aiming at understanding the world in order to change it.

2015) W Was ist der 'Stand des Marxismus'? Soziale und epistemologische Bedingungen kritischer Theorie heute.

Why should we rethink the socialist project today? In Hegemony and Socialist Strategy we pointed out some of the reasons. As participating actors in the history of our time, if we are actually to assume an interventionist role and not to do so blindly, we must attempt to wrest as much light as possible from the struggles in which we participate and from the changes which are taking place before our eyes. Thus, it is again necessary to temper 'the arms of critique'. The historical reality whereof the socialist project is reformulated today is very different from the one of only a few decades ago, and we will carry out our obligations as socialists and intellectuals only if we are fully conscious of the changes and persist in the effort of extracting all their consequences at the level of theory. The 'obstinate rigour' that Leonardo proposed as a rule for intellectual work should be the only guideline in this task; and it leaves no space for complacent sleights of hand that seek only to safeguard an obsolete orthodoxy.

Marxism in the modern world: social-philosophical analysis, 2019

The paper concentrates on resolving the question: is it possible today to be guided by Marxism as an instrument of social transformation, is this teaching capable of contributing to social advancement? Facts are a stubborn thing: Marxism in its completeness is refuted. But the fact of the collapse of the attempts to put Marxism into practice is not a completely convincing argument against the social doctrine of Marx. The question, ultimately, goes back to the problem of the subjective factor of the moral, theoretical, and political maturity of those who turn Marxism in actual practice.

An Introduction to Marxist Philosophy, 2021

Deleuze Studies, 2009

In 1990, Antonio Negri pointed out some problems with Deleuze's political philosophy. Substituting infra-structures for life or desire, as constitutive dimensions of power formations, did not imply giving up on Marx, but it certainly did imply a change in the table of conceptual analysis and a profound renovation of the questions that pertain to militant praxis. Taking this into account, we intend to explore the sense of a rare fidelity to Marx, and a certain idea of intellectual commitment that, reframing its objects and its instruments, pretends to renew political thinking in order to confront the unforeseeable of new knowledge, new techniques and new political facts.

Rethinking …, 2008

Vladislav Sofronov questioned a number of prominent Marxist scholars on the challenges to contemporary Marxism posed by volatile post-Soviet conditions. He seeks a way forward: away from neoliberalism, and toward a leftist consciousness that can be articulated across borders. This article publishes the responses of Frederic Jameson and of Jack Amariglio and Yahya M. Madra. Jameson's answers reflect his attitude toward contemporary Marxism: its dialectic, the relationship between labor and the theoretical problems of the present. He outlines the challenges that affect Marxism, particularly the disparity between labor and technology and the pressure from postmodernity and culture. Amariglio and Madra stress the enduring significance of the Marxist dialectic, and give a descriptive analysis of the alternation of notions between labor and capital.