Demythologizing Marxism: A Series of Studies on Marxism by Peter Hebblethwaite S.J. (auth.), Frederick J. Adelmann S.J.

For a New Critique of Political Economy

The catastrophic financial, social and political difficulty of our time demands a brand new and unique critique of political financial system - a rethinking of Marx's undertaking within the very assorted stipulations of twenty-first century capitalism.
Stiegler argues that at the present time the proletarian needs to be reconceptualized because the fiscal agent whose wisdom and reminiscence are confiscated via machines. This new feel of the time period ‘proletarian' is healthier understood by way of connection with Plato's critique of exteriorized reminiscence. by way of bringing jointly Plato and Marx, Stiegler can exhibit how a generalized proletarianization now encompasses not just the muscular method, as Marx observed it, but in addition the worried method of the so-called inventive employees within the details industries. The proletarians of the previous are disadvantaged in their functional information, while the latter are shorn in their theoretical perform, and either be afflicted by a confiscation of the very hazard of a real artwork of living.

But the mechanisms at paintings during this new and accentuated type of proletarianization are the very mechanisms which could spur a reversal of the method. this kind of reversal might indicate a very important contrast among one's existence paintings, originating in otium (leisure dedicated to the suggestions of the self), and the task, consisting in a negotium (the negotiation and calculation, more and more constrained to momentary expectations), resulting in the need of a brand new belief of monetary value.

This brief textual content bargains a superb creation to Stiegler's paintings whereas while representing a political name to hands within the face of a deepening financial and social crisis.

The Communist Necessity: Prolegomena To Any Future Radical Theory

“There was once a time after we proclaimed that we have been a part of a gorgeous and fragmented chaos of affinity teams, conflicted enterprises, disorganized rebels, all of whom have been by some means a part of an identical social circulate that used to be more than the sum of its components. We have been extra thoroughly a disorganized mob of enraged plebeians shaking our fists at a disciplined imperial military.

Ideology

This research is split into 3 elements: the classical culture; Althusser and after; and smooth debates. It comprises chapters on classification awareness, ideology and utopia, and the epistemology of sociology, the paintings of Georg Lukas, Karl Mannheim and Lucien Goldman respectively.

Marxism and Materialism: A Study in Marxist Theory of Knowledge

Argument that Marx has a realist ontology and a correspondence conception of fact. His perspectives are in comparison to either Hegel's and Kant's. This interpretation departs from extra Hegelian, 'idealist' interpretations that regularly depend upon false impression a number of the paintings of the early Marx. there's additionally a dialogue and partial defence of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.