From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology

Darko Suvin

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2013, vol. 21, issue 2-3, 279-311

Abstract: Of the two relatively independent parts here, Part 1. characterizes at length three phases (early, middle and late) of Marxisms, which were different and usually impoverished takes on Marx. Around 1990 the entire “scientific paradigm” of such Marxism from all three phases crumbled. Marx’s legacy can only be revived by reinstating his insistence on a full and mainly direct democracy. Part 2 deals with the concept and role of the communist party from Marx through Lenin, Stalin and others to Mao. A look backward at it poses the problem of the ossified vanguard, and possible alternative models from Gramsci and Brecht.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/0965156X.2013.864008

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