Whither Marxism?: Global Crises in International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415910439 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str.

Bernd Magnus; Stephen Cullenberg

Opis

Whither Marxism considers the fate of Marxism after the global collapse of communism. This collection, the companion volume to Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx, reassesses Marx as a philosopher and political thinker and examines the wider questions about the current status of Marxist social goals. What is living and what is dead in Marxism? Has the collapse of communism also spelled the death of Marxism and of Marx as an important political thinker? Have we reached the end of history as Frances Fukayama has argued, where pluralistic democracies and capitalist economies reign supreme? Given the plight of the homeless, the lack of adequate health care, environmental degradation, racism and enormous national debt burdens, what sort of a model for the future do we have? Whither Marxism? raises these questions in an international and interdisciplinary context. It brings leading scholars from North America and Western Europe into conversation with scholars from former communist countries who lived through and often participated in these transformations.

Recenzje

"They hold conferences on the future of Marxism, when what they are anxiously discussing is the future of themselves. This volume is the product of such a conference...There are ten papers of various kinds, from high theory to practical advice." -- Philosophy in Review, Vol. 17, No. 1-3, 1997

Spis treści

Part 1 PART ONE marxism's future?; Chapter 1 the obsolescence of marxism?, DOUGLASKELLNER; Chapter 2 refiguring values, power, knowledge, ABDULJANMOHAMED; Chapter 3 marxism: from scientific to utopian, ZHANGLONGXI; Chapter 4 the modern world and the individual, ANDREIMARGA; Chapter 5 supplementing marxism, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTYSPIVAK; Part 2 PART TWO transition to/from socialism; Chapter 6 forward back, CARLOSVILAS; Chapter 7 the transition to market—guided economies, KEITHGRIFFIN, AZIZUR RAHMANKHAN; Chapter 8 marxism, the nationality question and soviet leadership, ASHOTGALOIAN; Chapter 9 lessons from the USSR, STEPHENRESNICK, RICHARDWOLFF; Chapter 10 rethinking marxism in the light of chinese reforms, SUSHAOZHI; notes on contributors;

O autorze

Bernd Magnus, Stephen Cullenberg