This study presents an overview of the ideological framework of“Western Marxism.”This framework has a number of components,which are described in terms of a series of reductions,determinations,and the suspicions ent...This study presents an overview of the ideological framework of“Western Marxism.”This framework has a number of components,which are described in terms of a series of reductions,determinations,and the suspicions entertained by Western Marxists.The result was a truncated type of Marxism that cut itself off from the Marxist–Leninist tradition.It did so by reducing Marxism to the works of Marx alone and calling this“historical materialism,”which entailed a rejection of Engels’s significant contributions in history,science,and theory,and thus entailed a rejection of the subsequent developments of Marxism.This Western Marxism has been primarily promoted by“freelance intellectuals”with virtually no connection to Workers’or Communist Parties and was determined by an assumed ideological position before a proletarian revolution,was shaped by Western liberalism and imperialism,and has been constantly tempted into religiously inspired utopian versions of socialism.With deep suspicions of the state and national liberation,of science and technology,and of the importance of productive forces,this Western Marxism was always hoping for the ideal revolution(or even better,a peaceful transition)that would very quickly produce a utopian socialist society organised only by the people and without a state.This ideological framework also entailed a dismissal of the actual experience in developing countries of successful proletarian revolutions and the construction of socialism.展开更多
This study examines the proposition that the ideological structure of“Western Marxism”began to unravel after 1989 and the end of the Cold War,and that it is now largely falling apart.The argument proceeds in three s...This study examines the proposition that the ideological structure of“Western Marxism”began to unravel after 1989 and the end of the Cold War,and that it is now largely falling apart.The argument proceeds in three steps,the first of which is an overview of Western Marxism’s ideological structure.The second step analyses a number of deeply critical assessments of Western Marxism from within the contexts of the few countries of the world that make up the“West.”The fact that these critical and often polemical studies are appearing indicates the breakdown of Western Marxism’s former hegemony.The third step deals with more constructive material,including the Western“recovery”of Engels,and especially the dialectics of nature,as well as the impact of the major achievements in the theory and practice of Marxism from developing countries,in the context of socialism in power.展开更多
文摘This study presents an overview of the ideological framework of“Western Marxism.”This framework has a number of components,which are described in terms of a series of reductions,determinations,and the suspicions entertained by Western Marxists.The result was a truncated type of Marxism that cut itself off from the Marxist–Leninist tradition.It did so by reducing Marxism to the works of Marx alone and calling this“historical materialism,”which entailed a rejection of Engels’s significant contributions in history,science,and theory,and thus entailed a rejection of the subsequent developments of Marxism.This Western Marxism has been primarily promoted by“freelance intellectuals”with virtually no connection to Workers’or Communist Parties and was determined by an assumed ideological position before a proletarian revolution,was shaped by Western liberalism and imperialism,and has been constantly tempted into religiously inspired utopian versions of socialism.With deep suspicions of the state and national liberation,of science and technology,and of the importance of productive forces,this Western Marxism was always hoping for the ideal revolution(or even better,a peaceful transition)that would very quickly produce a utopian socialist society organised only by the people and without a state.This ideological framework also entailed a dismissal of the actual experience in developing countries of successful proletarian revolutions and the construction of socialism.
文摘This study examines the proposition that the ideological structure of“Western Marxism”began to unravel after 1989 and the end of the Cold War,and that it is now largely falling apart.The argument proceeds in three steps,the first of which is an overview of Western Marxism’s ideological structure.The second step analyses a number of deeply critical assessments of Western Marxism from within the contexts of the few countries of the world that make up the“West.”The fact that these critical and often polemical studies are appearing indicates the breakdown of Western Marxism’s former hegemony.The third step deals with more constructive material,including the Western“recovery”of Engels,and especially the dialectics of nature,as well as the impact of the major achievements in the theory and practice of Marxism from developing countries,in the context of socialism in power.
