Beyond Neo-Marxism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Bookchin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 1978 |
| Issue | 36 |
| Pages | 5-28 |
| Publication date | 1978-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0678036005 |
| OpenAlex | W2083845166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The failure of socialism, particularly its Marxian variety, to provide a revolutionary alternative has been followed by a highly abstract form of socialist theory that stands sharply at odds with a practical revolutionary project. Its retreat from the factory to the academy—an astonishing phenomenon that cannot be justified by viewing “knowledge” as a technical force in society—has denied socialism the right to a decent burial by perpetuating it as a professional ideology. To the extent that the academy itself has become increasingly disengaged from society, it has used socialist theory to indulge its worst habits. The remains of a once-insurgent movement have provided the intellectual nutrients for conceptual frameworks utterly alien to it—a level of discourse, a range of perceptions, a terminology, and a body of pretensions that mutually reinforce the reduction of ideology to socialism and of socialism to ideology
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Terminology · Variety (cybernetics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2007 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |