Post-Soviet Marxism

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The post-Soviet Marxism is a school mainly Russian-based social scientists that after the crisis of real socialism and its end in the Soviet Union of and most other countries, new aspects of Marxism investigate and seek particular answers to the emergence of the information society , the globalization and the so-called proto-imperialism .

Positions

Post-Soviet Marxism arose after the collapse of the Soviet Union in Russia from the criticism of dogmatic versions of Marxism and Karl Popper- influenced liberalism, as prevalent in the 20th century, and current neo-Stalinist and postmodern- influenced discourse theoretical positions.

Post-Soviet Marxism attempts to critically inherit classical Marxism and its humanist versions that appeared in the USSR after Stalin, and refers to the works of Soviet authors such as Genrich Stepanowitsch Batishchev , Viktor Alekseevitsch Vazjulin , N. Slobin, Ewald Wassiljewitsch Ilyenkow , Wladislaw Schanowitsch Kelle , Wladislaw Lektorski , Michail Lifschitz and Vadim Michailowitsch Meschujew as well as Western Marxists like Georg Lukács , Bertell Ollman , István Mészáros and Adam Schaff .

While post-Soviet Marxism criticizes Stalinist Marxism, it wants to develop and revise Marxism on the basis of the experiences of the past decades. The aim is an open dialogue with other humanistic and scientific currents, such as existentialism and classical institutionalism .

The present reality is understood as a qualitatively new, global epoch beginning with the 20th century, in which the conditions are created for a post-capitalist and beyond that post-industrial, post-economic society as a realm of freedom .

The experiences of real socialism should be understood dialectically as contradictions between systems of authoritarian bureaucracies and approaches of socialist relationships.

methodology

Post-Soviet Marxism pursues the rehabilitation and application of the materialistic-dialectical method, seeing itself in the tradition of Ilyenkov .

He assumes that "the (spatial and temporal) field of application of the classical (Hegelian-Marxian) dialectic is historically limited by the epoch of alienation", insofar as it should be avoided for research into processes that take place in the "realm of Freedom "fall. For this, a new logic of dialogue or so-called "polyphony" is required, as suggested in the 20th century by Mikhail Bakhtin , Batishchev and Wladimir Solomonowitsch Bibler . In contrast, classical dialectics are of great importance for examining the existing world of alienation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AV Buzgalin, AI Kolganov: Post-Soviet Marxism in Russia (2007), page 5
  2. ↑ AV Buzgalin, AI Kolganov: Post-Soviet Marxism in Russia (2007), pp. 5-6
  3. ↑ AV Buzgalin, AI Kolganov: Post-Soviet Marxism in Russia (2007), page 7
  4. ↑ a b A. V. Buzgalin, AI Kolganov: Post-Soviet Marxism in Russia (2007), page 10

presentation

magazine

  • Ekonomiko-filosofskije Tetrady ( Economic-Philosophical Notebooks ), subtitle: Journal of Contemporary Social Thought , Social Foundation “Alternatives”, Center for Academic Research, Moscow from 2003

literature

  • Günter Mayer, Wolfgang Knütter: Post-Soviet Marxists in Russia , in Utopie Kreativ , 201/202, July / August 2007, pp. 740–763 (24 pages pdf; 182 kB)