Tag: Philosophy
Renewing Political Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Isabelle Garo’s recent Communism and Strategy,”bringing it into conversation with Laclau, Mouffe, Althusser and other authors in and responding to the communist tradition.
On “Being Serious About Ideas”
William Clare Roberts responds to Landon Frim’s and Harrison Fluss’s argument, printed previously in these pages, that Marxist political strategy requires theoretical grounding in dialectical monism.
Materialism and the Crisis of Marxism
What philosophical form corresponds to mass struggles? Arguing against a monistic Marxism, Darren Rosso continues the debate about Fluss and Frim’s reclamation of Enlightenment rationality.
Philosophy as Life-Making Struggle
Neil Braganza responds to Frim and Fluss’s debate with Aaron Jaffe, arguing that Spinoza’s monism requires open-ended thinking connected to struggles for liberation.
Reason is Red
Harrison Fluss and Landom Frim respond to Aaron Jaffe by defending the political value of philosophical monism.
Weimar’s Marxist Heretic
Karl Korsch stood out as one of the most original revolutionary Marxists of Weimar Berlin’s leftist intelligentsia