Post-Marxism

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The used since the 1980s concept of Post Marxism in a wider sense is not available for a particular philosophical or sociological school, but refers to a trend in the continuing social criticism , in many cases, within the post-structuralism resulting theory development after Karl Marx , the u is. a. Philosophers and social scientists such as Theodor W. Adorno , Hannah Arendt , Judith Butler , Cornelius Castoriadis , Ernesto Laclau , Chantal Mouffe , Jacques Rancière .

In a narrower sense, post- Marxism, following Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, describes a position that has left traditional Marxism behind and yet remains connected to Marx's work in certain points. Under the (overcome) "Marxism" on the one hand the Marxian doctrine is understood, but on the other hand especially the development and transformation which the ideas of Marx, Marxism, after his death especially in the " Marxist-Leninist worldview "of the state socialist countries. In this regard, post -Marxist must be strictly distinguished from the term ex-Marxist . Post-Marxists criticize Marxist reductionism and its forms of play: economist determinism and class struggle , the Hegel-Marxist totality concept as well as its revolutionary theory . The teleological notion of a radical break (and not a process-based transformation ), the assumption of a (predetermined) revolutionary subject and the ideas of a proletarian revolution to take power are questioned in terms of their dangers and problems, and some even completely abandoned them.

Critics, especially those from the traditional Marxist direction, often accuse the representatives of such currents that their Marx reference is a farce, since they disregarded most of the core points of Marx's theory and only thought of a few things as they did could use them in their own theory. The core of this dispute is the question of how Marx is to be interpreted. The protagonists of the currents that can be summarized as "post-Marxism" do not represent a uniform interpretation of Marx, but they agree that Marx must be reinterpreted because traditional Marxism has done this wrong over the centuries. The relationship between post-Marxism and radical democracy is central .

According to Robert Kurz , “post-Marxism” is also a particular trend in value criticism .

literature

  • Aristotelis Agridopoulos: The Imaginary and the Political. Post-Marxist social ontology with Cornelius Castoriadis and Ernesto Laclau, in: kultuRRevolution. Journal for Applied Discourse Theory 71. 2. 2016, pp. 45–52.

Web links

  • Oliver wing-Martinsen: questioning the political. Subject constitution - social order - radical democracy . Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2017.
  • Oliver wing, Reinhard Heil, Andreas Hetzel (Hrsg.): The return of the political. Democracy Theories Today . WBG: Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-17435-6 .
  • Rahel Jaeggi and Daniel Loick (eds.): After Marx - Philosophy, Criticism, Practice . Suhrkamp: Berlin 2013.
  • Oliver Marchart : The political difference. On the thinking of the political in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, Laclau and Agamben . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29556-4 .
  • Oliver Marchart : Answering the question: What does post-Marxism mean? , 1998.
  • Martin Nonhoff: Discourse - Radical Democracy - Hegemony. On the political thinking of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007.
  • Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe : Post-Marxism Without Apologies, in: New Left Review , 166, 1987, pp. 79-106.
  • Cornelius Castoriadis , L'institution imaginaire de la société, Paris, Seuil, 1975.
  • Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe , Hégémonie et stratégie socialiste. Vers une politique démocratique radicale, Paris, Les solitaires intempestifs, 2009.
  • Ernesto Laclau , La raison populiste, Paris, Seuil, 2008.
  • Varios autores "Posmarxismo: en los márgenes del marxismo", Universidad ARCIS, Santiago de Chile, agosto de 2002
  • Atilio Borón: "¿Posmarxismo? Crisis, recomposición o liquidación del marxismo en la obra de Ernesto Laclau" (1996), en Tras el búho de Minerva. Mercado contra democracia en el capitalismo de fin de siglo; B. As., México, etc .: CLACSO y Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000
  • Ernesto Laclau y Chantal Mouffe , Hegemonía y estrategia socialista. Hacia una radicalización de la democracia, Madrid, Siglo XXI editores, 1987
  • Ernesto Laclau , “Discurso, hegemonía y política: Consideraciones sobre la crisis del marxismo” en VVAA., Los nuevos procesos sociales y la teoría política contemporánea, México, Siglo XXI editores, 1986
  • Ernesto Laclau , Deconstrucción, Pragmatismo y Hegemonía, en Deconstrucción y Pragamatismo, Chantal Mouffe (comp.), Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1998
  • Imanol Galfarsoro: "(Post) Marxismoa, kultura eta eragiletasuna: Ibilbide historiko labur bat" in Alaitz Aizpuru (coord.), Euskal Herriko pentsamenduaren gida , Bilbo, UEU 2012. ISBN 978-84-8438-435-9
  • Simon Tormey & Jules Townshend, Key Thinkers from Critical Theory to Post-Marxism , Pine Forge Press, 2006.
  • Sim, Stuart. Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History , Routledge, 2002.
  • Shenfield, Stephen. Vladislav Bugera: Portrait of a Post-Marxist Thinker
  • el-Ojeili, Chamsy. Post-Marxism with Substance: Castoriadis and the Autonomy Project , in New Political Science, 32: 2, June 2001, pp. 225-239.
  • el-Ojeili C. After post-socialism: Social theory, utopia and the work of castoriadis in a global age , Antepodium: Online Journal of World Affairs (2011), pp. 1-16.

Individual evidence

  1. Robert Kurz: Post Marxism and Work Fetish , from: Krisis No. 17, 1995