On the Urgent Need to Re-Engage Classical Marxism

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ID2370753
AuthorsRaju J Das (0000-0001-6458-6600, York University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue7-8
Pages965-985
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920520948930
OpenAlexW3082325426
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

Humankind continues to face the two problems that have existed since the degeneration of the 1917 October Revolution that began in the mid-1920s. While it is experiencing enormous suffering caused by capitalism, there is also a crisis of anti-capitalist leadership. These two problems now cohabit with growing radicalization among sections of the working population and the youth, following the 2007 economic crisis; burgeoning threat of fascistic tendencies both within the state apparatuses and among the masses; and reformism among middle-class Marxist intellectuals (as well as among workers). In this global conjuncture, there is a need to return to the root of the Marxist agenda. This is the classical tradition, which includes the ideas of Marx and Engels and goes beyond their ideas. In this article, I offer an outline of that tradition

Capitalism · Class conflict · Face (sociological concept) · Marxist philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Radicalization · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Terrorism · Working class · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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