Marxism and Truth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Dallmayr (corresponding author), F R Dallmayr |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 1976 |
| Issue | 29 |
| Pages | 130-159 |
| Publication date | 1976-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0976029130 |
| OpenAlex | W2065202423 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Together with other political frameworks or orientations, Marxism lives today largely at the outskirts of knowledge. In a sense its marginal position can be traced to an excess of efficiency: to its success in unmasking and demolishing political doctrines and blueprints. Leveled into the kaleidoscope of available “ideologies,” Marxism (at least in Western eyes) tends to be reduced to the status of a blind impulse or idiosyncratic preference; attachment to its premises, consequently, appears as a manifestation either of ignorance—the operation of hidden motives—or of private whim. The only means in this situation of extricating Marxist thought from the tentacles of hazard and fancy seems to reside in a return to its “scientific” aspirations, to its ambition not only to imagine “alternative futures” but to investigate and present an account of social reality
Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Ideology · Ignorance · Impulse (physics · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 1975 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |