The War Against Marxism

Reification and Revolution

Tony McKenna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20141-5 (ISBN)

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Marxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its thought has often been distorted and overridden by various Stalinist dictatorships which claimed to be acting in its name. A similar undermining of freedom of thought has been accomplished at an intellectual level; various schools have transformed Marxist thought in line with some of the most fashionable but gentrified forms of contemporary philosophy, shifting the focus from the democratic power of the masses and their ability to challenge the capitalist order to concentrate on superstar thinkers and elite theories.

The War Against Marxism traces the war against Marxism which, paradoxically, has been conducted in the name of Marxism itself. As such it provides a fiery philosophical and polemical indictment of so-called ‘Marxists’ such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, Mouffe, Laclau and Zizek and asks what can be done to stem this counterrevolution.

Tony McKenna is a journalist and cultural commentator who writes regularly for Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, ABC Australia, TRT World, New Statesman, The United Nations, New Internationalist, The Progressive, and Adbusters. He is author of Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art (2020), Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives: A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures (2019), Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective (2015)

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Why the Founding Fathers of the Frankfurt School should be considered anti-Marxist
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles: A study of capitalist reification and the possibility of its overcoming
3. Against post-Marxism: How post-Marxism annuls class-based historicism and the possibility of revolutionary praxis
4. Reification and its consequences for modern life
5. Literary Theory and the loss of the historical totality
6. Stephen King’s IT and the proletariat as identical subject-object of the historical process
7. The retreat from class: The theoretical fundaments of Moishe Postone’s critique of Lukács
8. Revolution and counterrevolution in thought
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 214 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-20141-3 / 1350201413
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20141-5 / 9781350201415
Zustand	Neuware