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nevinator's review
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.25
Ever wonder “How has Marxism been doing since he died?” This book has an answer for you: dying.
Written in 1975, this book presents a history of materialism and how it has failed Marx’s project. It not only presenting the things Marx missed, but showing how the very tools he crafted left the working class and entered the hands of colleges to be an intellectual theory sold in capitalist settings.
This book is a history of the political lefts deterministic frame work unraveling itself through the isolation of the working class, and becoming an intellectual theory that excavates the causes of the current political environment-leaving the subject for a structure.
To try and tell you Marxism has died seems far-fetched, it’s theories are still present, but that is all it can present. As the last antithesis and critique system of capitalism available- it has become fossilized and exhibited.
The books most accurate prediction is the return of naturalism, the belief that things are inherently biological, as the new framework of deterministic history. Everyone, from left and right sides of the political spectrum, are articulating poltical structures as reflections of man himself. Naturalism has become the “Abomination of desolation” of Plato’s “Republic”.
This is a reminder of the intellectual failings of determinism as the center of the human experience. It’s ghostly presence is still looming over humanity, looking for a new host to inhabit and has left the comatose body of the political left. The political right is the host apparent as accessibility of the deterministic nature of naturalism makes recruitment easy for the rights cause. Leaving the left stuck crawling out of the dust bin of history.
Written in 1975, this book presents a history of materialism and how it has failed Marx’s project. It not only presenting the things Marx missed, but showing how the very tools he crafted left the working class and entered the hands of colleges to be an intellectual theory sold in capitalist settings.
This book is a history of the political lefts deterministic frame work unraveling itself through the isolation of the working class, and becoming an intellectual theory that excavates the causes of the current political environment-leaving the subject for a structure.
To try and tell you Marxism has died seems far-fetched, it’s theories are still present, but that is all it can present. As the last antithesis and critique system of capitalism available- it has become fossilized and exhibited.
The books most accurate prediction is the return of naturalism, the belief that things are inherently biological, as the new framework of deterministic history. Everyone, from left and right sides of the political spectrum, are articulating poltical structures as reflections of man himself. Naturalism has become the “Abomination of desolation” of Plato’s “Republic”.
This is a reminder of the intellectual failings of determinism as the center of the human experience. It’s ghostly presence is still looming over humanity, looking for a new host to inhabit and has left the comatose body of the political left. The political right is the host apparent as accessibility of the deterministic nature of naturalism makes recruitment easy for the rights cause. Leaving the left stuck crawling out of the dust bin of history.
sergio_corchete's review against another edition
4.0
Muy pertinente la crítica al estructuralismo y el post estructuralismo, muy buena capacidad de proyección y autocrítica. Muy interesantes las referencias y la conjugación de los socialismos utopistas con los reclamos de profundización institucionalista. Hacen falta esta clase de repasos con tono militante y estratégico, una gozada. Un muy buen ejercicio de entendimiento del marxismo como teoría crítica y autofiscalizatoria, con sus pros y sus contras.
alexlanz's review
He does to postwar intellectual history what Alexander did to the gordian knot
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