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"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism

"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism

"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism

"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism

"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism