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Archive of Considerations on Western Marxism

    Razmig Keucheyan
    29 September 2020
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    Post War Critical Theory: A Theoretical Glaciation

    As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction are merciless. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2020
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    Western Marxist Theory: Verso Student Reading

    From across 50 years of publishing at Verso: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Karl Marx
    07 May 2020
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    Happy Birthday Karl!

    An excerpt from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

    Theodor Adorno
    22 February 2018
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    Adorno's "Motifs": a selection

    A collection of aphorisms on music written by Theodor Adorno between 1927 and 1951.
     

    Perry Anderson
    01 June 2017
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    Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias

    Perry Anderson probes Edward Thompson's work on William Morris and his defense of utopianism.  

    Perry Anderson
    31 May 2017
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    Thematic Innovations of Western Marxism

    This text is excerpted from Considerations on Western Marxism, written in 1974 as the introduction to a reader on Western Marxism whose publication was ultimately delayed before appearing as a standalone volume in 1976.

    Perry Anderson
    30 May 2017
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    The Timing of Postmodernity

    The capture of the postmodern by Jameson has set the terms of subsequent debate. It is no surprise that the most significant interventions since his entry into the field have likewise been Marxist in origin. The three leading contributions can be read as attempts to supplement or correct, each in its own way, Jameson's original account. Alex Callinicos’s Against Postmodernism (1989) advances a closer analysis of the political background to the postmodern. David Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity (1990) offers a much fuller theory of its economic presuppositions. Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) tackles the impact of its ideological diffusion. All these works pose problems of demarcation. How is the postmodern to be best periodized?

    Etienne Balibar
    19 May 2017
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    Lenin's Three Theoretical Arguments About the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    It is the contradictions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as it was beginning to develop in Russia, that form the object of Lenin's analysis and of his arguments. If you forget this fact, you can easily fall into dogmatism and formalism: Leninism can be represented as a finished theory, a closed system — which it has been, for too long, by Communist parties. But if on the other hand you remain content with a superficial view of these contradictions and of their historical causes, if you remain content with the simplistic and false idea according to which you have to "choose" between the standpoint of theory and that of history, real life and practice, if you interpret Lenin's arguments simply as a reflection of ever changing circumstances, less applicable the further away they are in history, then the real causes of these historical contradictions become unintelligible, and our own relation to them becomes invisible. You fall into the domain of subjective fantasy

    Tasos Tsakiroglou
    10 April 2017
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    The Common Thread of Pessimism: Razmig Keucheyan on contemporary critical theory

    06 July 2016
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    “So it must be for ever...”—Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy and its Thinkers in the LRB

    In the most recent issue of the London Review of Books, Thomas Meaney reviews Perry Anderson's recently published analysis of the ways in which the creation of the US state and its imperial ambitions have interacted, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. Read an extract here.

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