Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice.
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Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe.
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class unconsciousness, materialismo storico, del marxismo, proletarian organization, factory councils, del socialismo, labor aristocracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Western Marxism, Russian Revolution, Frankfurt School, Western Europe, World War, Rosa Luxemburg, March Action, Soviet Marxism, West European, Western Marxists, The Phenomenology, German Social Democrats, Russian Marxists, Soviet Union, Dutch Marxists, European Marxism, German October, Italian Marxism, Max Horkheimer, United States, Arturo Labriola, German Communist, Paul Levi, Charles Andler, Lucien Herr New!
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"So much the worse for the facts." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
class unconsciousness, materialismo storico, del marxismo, proletarian organization, factory councils, del socialismo, labor aristocracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Western Marxism, Russian Revolution, Frankfurt School, Western Europe, World War, Rosa Luxemburg, March Action, Soviet Marxism, West European, Western Marxists, The Phenomenology, German Social Democrats, Russian Marxists, Soviet Union, Dutch Marxists, European Marxism, German October, Italian Marxism, Max Horkheimer, United States, Arturo Labriola, German Communist, Paul Levi, Charles Andler, Lucien Herr New!
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