The paper explores the main directions of criticism of Marxism by the Russian philosopher B.N. Chicherin. B. Chicherin criticizes the social and economic Karl Marx's views pushing the principle of ...freedom as the determinative principle in the substantiation of the conception of human dignity; moreover, he points out that the true freedom leads to social and wealth inequality and the destruction of which entails the destruction of human freedom. Relying on the political economic school of Frederic Bastiat, the Russian philosopher extolled the principle of free trade and believed that the increase in labor productivity should raise a real income of workers. And from this position he refutes the Marx's concept about absolute and relative impoverishment of the workers under capitalism. B. Chicherin rejects the labor theory of cost believing that the cost depends on the utility of the goods to the consumer and tries to reverse Marx's position on the alienation with his own statement about the free choice of the person of such conditions that lead to the degradation of a person.
Labour Hamilton, Jennifer
Environmental humanities,
05/2015, Volume:
6, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
What will it take to change the future? Towards the end of Specters of Marx, Derrida argues that to create a more ethical future, we need questions that bring “representation back to the world of ...labor.” But, he continues, “they are not even, in the final analysis, questions but seismic events. Practical events, where thought becomes act, and body and manual experience ...
An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around
the world The first book of its kind to appear since the
end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides
encyclopedic coverage of ...communism and its impact throughout the
world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former
communist states, scholars have found new material that has
expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an
ideological and political force. A Dictionary of 20th-Century
Communism brings this scholarship to students, teachers, and
scholars in related fields. In more than 400 concise entries, the
book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the
enormous role it played in world history from the Russian
Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond.
Examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of
communism around the globe
Features contributions from an international team of 160
scholars
Includes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as:
Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro,
Gorbachev
Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution,
Sandinista Revolution
Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality,
labor
Organizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer
Rouge
Related topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism,
anticommunism, McCarthyism
Guides readers to further research through bibliographies,
cross-references, and an index
To analyse the processes of development of Marxist philosophical and socio-political doctrine in China in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; to systematically ...reconstruct the peculiarities of the interpretation of its axiomatics by modern Chinese researchers; to determine the main trends, goals and objectives of modernization and Chineseization of Marxism in the People’s Republic of China; to reveal the attributive features of the ideological, theoretical, methodological and ideological foundations of those innovative approaches and narratives for the renewal of Marxist philosophy and social studies, which are offered by representatives of the modern scientific community of Chinese philosophers, political scientists, historians and may become paradigmatic in this century. The main research methods were systemic, structural-functional, comparative, discursive, content analysis, and prescriptions of the general scientific principles of Scientism and Historicism. Based on the analysis of the publications of modern Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian researchers, theoretical reconstruction of the specifics of the development of Marxist philosophical and socio-political doctrine in China in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is proposed; the influence of objective and subjective factors on them is characterized. Among them, the greatest attention was paid to the conceptual reflection of how the needs for the fundamental and large-scale modernization of Chinese society necessitated the revision and updating of the diamat-istmat version of Marxism, which, by the early 1960s, had become conservative, orthodox and scholastic, turned into a paradigm in the scientific environment of Soviet-style states, and into metanarrative in the political system of the People’s Republic of China (as well as in the USSR). The author provides a generalized analytical assessment of alternative options for updating the model of Marxist philosophy and the complex of socio-political sciences that are dominant in the People’s Republic of China; the reasons and internal logic of their modernization are revealed on the basis of which the permissible and possible directions, prospects, and limits of ideological, theoretical-methodological and ideological reforming of Marxism in China are determined.
Lukács: ¿un marxista occidental? Silva de Sousa, Adrianyce Angélica
Trabajo y sociedad (Santiago del Estero, Argentina),
01/2022, Volume:
23, Issue:
38
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
RESUMEN El presente artículo tiene como objetivo discutir la actualidad del pensamiento de G. Lukács y para eso efectiviza una revisión de la literatura acerca del llamado “marxismo occidental” ...presentando la idea de que Lukács y su producción, son en verdad contrarios a lo que se define por “marxismo occidental”.
The Red Pill Roberts, William Clare
Radical philosophy,
10/2022
213
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Rare is the book that provokes in Roberts both frequent agreement and teeth-clenching, head-shaking, wincing frustration. But such is Vivek Chibber's The Class Matrix. Chibber is his generation's ...foremost advocate of analytical Marxism, a program of articulating and defending socialist politics using the tools of contemporary social science. Here, Roberts argues that The Class Matrix is itself what must be escaped. It is superficially rigorous but built upon critical ambiguities, equivocations and contradictions. Like much online and podcast commentary, it hovers indefinitely between angst and trolling. Like a bad legacy sequel, it can match neither the scope nor the insight of the original work of Erik Olin Wright or Adam Przeworski, to which it hearkens nostalgically. If this is what analytical Marxism is today, it is time to cancel the franchise.
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