Trend in political philosophy and social theory
This article is about the political philosophy that reinterprets Marxism. For the study of formerly socialist states, see
postsocialism . For the economic and political transformations that occurred in certain countries as a result of the fall of their communist governments, see
post-communism .
Post-Marxism is a perspective in critical social theory which radically reinterprets Marxism , countering its association with economism , historical determinism , anti-humanism , and class reductionism ,[ 1] whilst remaining committed to the construction of socialism .[ 2] [ 3] Most notably, Post-Marxists are anti-essentialist , rejecting the primacy of class struggle , and instead focus on building radical democracy .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] Post-Marxism can be considered a synthesis of post-structuralist [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] frameworks and neo-Marxist [ 10] analysis,[ 11] in response to the decline of the New Left after the protests of 1968 .[ 12] In a broader sense, post-Marxism can refer to Marxists or Marxian -adjacent theories which break with the old worker's movements and socialist states entirely,[ 13] in a similar sense to Post-leftism ,[ 14] [ 15] and accept that the era of mass revolution premised on the Fordist worker is potentially over.[ 16]
The term "Post-Marxism" first appeared in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe 's theoretical work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy .[ 17] [ 18] Post-Marxism is a wide category not well-defined, containing the work of Laclau and Mouffe [ 19] [ 20] on the one hand, and some strands of autonomism and Open Marxism ,[ 21] post-structuralism ,[ 22] [ 23] cultural studies ,[ 24] ex-Marxists[ 25] and Deleuzian -inspired[ 26] 'politics of difference'[ 27] [ 28] on the other.[ 29] Recent overviews of post-Marxism are provided by Ernesto Screpanti ,[ 30] Göran Therborn ,[ 31] and Gregory Meyerson.[ 32] Prominent post-Marxist journals include New Formations ,[ 33] Constellations ,[ 34] Endnotes ,[ 35] Crisis and Critique [ 36] and Arena .[ 37]
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^ Callinicos, Alex (2022). Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (1st ed.). Routledge.
^ Arditi, Benjamin (September 2007). "Post-hegemony: politics outside the usual post-Marxist paradigm". Contemporary Politics . 13 (3): 205–226. doi :10.1080/13569770701467411 . S2CID 154296914 .
^ Sim, Stuart (2022). Reflections on Post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe's Project of Radical Democracy in the 21st Century . Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-5292-2183-1 . [page needed ]
^ Mclean, Ian; Mcmillan, Alistair (2003) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (Article: State). Oxford University Press.
^ Mouffe, Chantal (June 1995). "Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . 13 (3): 259–265. Bibcode :1995EnPlD..13..259M . doi :10.1068/d130259 . S2CID 144784412 .
^ Jacobs, Thomas (2 October 2018). "The Dislocated Universe of Laclau and Mouffe: An Introduction to Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory" . Critical Review . 30 (3–4): 294–315. doi :10.1080/08913811.2018.1565731 . hdl :1854/LU-8600661 . S2CID 150207035 .
^ bloomsbury.com. "Marx Through Post-Structuralism" . Bloomsbury . Retrieved 15 May 2023 .
^ "Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work | Historical Materialism" . www.historicalmaterialism.org . 30 April 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2023 .
^ Ritzer, George; Schubert, J. Daniel (1991). "The Changing Nature of Neo-Marxist Theory: A Metatheoretical Analysis". Sociological Perspectives . 34 (3): 359–375. doi :10.2307/1389516 . JSTOR 1389516 . S2CID 146959219 .
^ Peters, Michael A.; Neilson, David; Jackson, Liz (6 December 2022). "Post-marxism, humanism and (post)structuralism: Educational philosophy and theory" . Educational Philosophy and Theory . 54 (14): 2331–2340. doi :10.1080/00131857.2020.1824783 . S2CID 224983298 .
^ "post-Marxism" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 19 April 2023 .
^ Mills, Charles W. (23 March 2017). Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-024545-0 .
^ "Post-Left Anarchy" . The Anarchist Library . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ "The Platypus Affiliated Society – The Left is not a concept" . platypus1917.org . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ Deleuze: The Grandeur of Marx with Nick Thoburn , 25 September 2022, retrieved 23 March 2024
^ McKenna, Tony (3 April 2014). "Against Post-Marxism: How Post-Marxism Annuls Class-Based Historicism and the Possibility of Revolutionary Praxis". International Critical Thought . 4 (2): 142–159. doi :10.1080/21598282.2014.906538 . S2CID 144911344 .
^ Bowman, Paul (2019). "Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism". Introducing Literary Theories . pp. 799–809. doi :10.1515/9781474473637-104 . ISBN 978-1-4744-7363-7 . S2CID 246928968 .
^ Breckman, Warren (2013). "Introduction". Adventures of the Symbolic . pp. 1–23. doi :10.7312/columbia/9780231143943.003.0008 . ISBN 978-0-231-14394-3 .
^ Fisken, Timothy David (2012). The Turn to the Political: Post-Marxism and Marx's Critique of Politics (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
^ "Post-Marxism" . MARX 200 . 2 March 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2023 .
^ Barrow, Clyde W. (1993). Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neomarxist, Postmarxist . Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-13713-7 . [page needed ]
^ Jones, A. (1999). "Dialectics and difference: against Harvey's dialectical 'post-Marxism' " . Progress in Human Geography . 23 (4): 529–555. doi :10.1191/030913299676750977 . S2CID 58943873 .
^ Tunderman, Simon (2 November 2021). "Post-Marxist reflections on the value of our time. Value theory and the (in)compatibility of discourse theory and the critique of political economy" . Critical Discourse Studies . 18 (6): 655–670. doi :10.1080/17405904.2020.1829664 . S2CID 225142057 .
^ Smith, Richard G; Doel, Marcus A (April 2001). "Baudrillard Unwound: The Duplicity of Post-Marxism and Deconstruction" . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . 19 (2): 137–159. Bibcode :2001EnPlD..19..137S . doi :10.1068/d226t . ISSN 0263-7758 . S2CID 147199071 .
^ thewastedworld (22 February 2020). "Underground Intensities: The Gothic Marxism of Deleuze and Guattari" . The Wasted World . Retrieved 16 May 2023 .
^ "The Politics of Difference". Gilles Deleuze . 2005. pp. 114–153. doi :10.1017/CBO9781139165419.005 . ISBN 978-0-521-84309-6 .
^ Toscano, Alberto (2008). "Chapter Twenty-Eight. Marxism expatriated: Alain Badiou's turn". Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism . pp. 529–548. doi :10.1163/ej.9789004145986.i-813.149 . ISBN 978-90-474-2360-7 .
^ Samanci, Helene (2012). "Political Ontology of post-Marxism" (PDF) .
^ Screpanti, Ernesto (2000). "The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society . 12 (1): 87–111. doi :10.1080/08935690009358993 . S2CID 145419981 .
^ Therborn, Göran (2008). From Marxism to Post-Marxism . London: Verso Books . p. 208.
^ Meyerson, Gregory; San Juan, E. Jr. (2009). "Post-Marxism as Compromise Formation". Cultural Logic: Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice . 16 . doi :10.14288/clogic.v16i0.191554 .
^ "New Formations: About" . Lawrence Wishart . Retrieved 18 May 2023 .
^ "Constellations Journal – About" .
^ Endnotes. "Endnotes" . endnotes.org.uk . Retrieved 24 May 2023 .
^ "About us – CRISIS AND CRITIQUE" . www.crisiscritique.org . Retrieved 23 June 2023 .
^ "About Arena – Arena" . arena.org.au . Retrieved 22 May 2023 .