Against Post-Marxism
How Post-Marxism Annuls Class-Based Historicism and the Possibility of Revolutionary Praxis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13042927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Mckenna (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 142-159 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Critical Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-8312 • E-ISSN: 2159-8312 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21598282.2014.906538 |
| OpenAlex | W2054162262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article provides a brief examination of the theory of Althusser, Mouffe, Laclau and Žižek. Specifically the writer endeavours to provide an account of the methodological categories which underpin the thought of these thinkers at the most fundamental level; an X-ray like snap shot which reveals the bare bones of the theoretical apparatus each thinker deploys. When stripped of all its external paraphernalia and specific idiosyncrasies, the thought of each of the thinkers considered here attains a fundamental identity; that is, one discovers at the methodological level, a reconfiguring of Marxism according to a post-Kantian paradigm. I will demonstrate how the neo-Kantian reconfiguration of Marxism by post-Marxists annuls its class-based historicism and the possibility of revolutionary praxis therein, and how a reversion to a pre-Hegelian form of methodology results inevitably in the annihilation of the living core of Marxism—its class driven historicism; consequently, I suggest some of the grievous political implications which flow from this. Althusser, Mouffe and Laclau were all heavily influenced by the great Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci. The manner in which they misrepresent his thought is integral to understanding the development of their own, so this article will also consider Gramsci in brief—specifically his approach to the base-superstructure problem which has bedevilled Marxist scholarship, on and off, since its inception
Aesthetics · Class (philosophy · Class conflict · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Historicism · Identity (music · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |