Post-Marxism: Implications for Political Theory and Practice

This paper delineates the contours of "post-Marxism", understood as a discourse and political practice resulting from the collapse of "actually existing socialism" and from ongoing critiques of Marxist theory and epistemology. In explicating post-Marxism, the author examines some...

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Published in:Sojourn (Singapore) 1995-04, Vol.10 (1), p.45-64, Article SJ10-1D
Main Author: Saravanamuttu, Johan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian studies
Authoritarianism
Capitalism
Civil society
Democracy
Developing Countries
Epistemology
Marxian economics
Marxism
Political philosophy
Political power
Political theory
Postmodernism
Social theory
Socialism
Theoretical Problems
Theory Practice Relationship
Third World
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Summary:This paper delineates the contours of "post-Marxism", understood as a discourse and political practice resulting from the collapse of "actually existing socialism" and from ongoing critiques of Marxist theory and epistemology. In explicating post-Marxism, the author examines some pitfalls in applying it to Third World contexts. He concludes that while the post-Marxist injunction for social pluralism and radical democratization is well taken, there is still an imperative for a more liberationist and devolutionist politics which lies in the strategic and programmatic expansion of emancipatory terrains in social and political discourses and practices in the Third World.
ISSN:0217-9520
DOI:10.1355/SJ10-1D