scholarly journals A teoria política de Marx: uma totalidade orgânica | Marx’s political theory: an organic whole

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Polese
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Classical Transition ◽  
Soviet Experience

Apresenta-se aqui uma leitura dos principais traços da teoria política de Marx. Esta é entendida como uma totalidade orgânica na qual cada elemento impõe necessariamente sua articulação e mediação com os demais. Ao delinear nestes termos o legado político de Marx, pretende-se contribuir no sentido da elaboração de uma teoria da transição para além do sistema do capital. Defende-se que esta precisa, necessariamente, incorporar de forma crítica o legado das teorias da transição clássicas, em especial as elaboradas no esteio da Revolução Russa de 1917, e também aquelas que foram elaboradas mais recentemente, com a vantagem de poderem versar sobre a experiência soviética que formalmente chegou ao fim em 1991. Por conta disso e por afinidades teóricas, o intérprete marxista privilegiado no texto é István Mészáros.Palavras-Chave: Karl Marx; revolução; transição socialista; teoria política; comunismo; István Mészáros.  Abstract –It is presented here a reading of the main features of Marx's political theory. This is understood as an organic whole in which each element necessarily imposes its articulation and mediation with the others. In outlining in these terms Marx's political legacy, this article is intended to contribute towards the elaboration of a theory of transition beyond the capital system. It is argued that this transition necessarily needs to incorporate in a critical way the legacy of classical transition theories, especially those elaborated in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and also those that have been elaborated more recently, with the advantage of being able to deal with the Soviet experience that formally came to an end in 1991. Because of this and theoretical affinities, the Marxist interpreter privileged in the text is István Mészáros.Keywords: Karl Marx; revolution; socialist transition; political theory; communism; István Mészáros.

Karl Marx and Party Theory

1985 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus von Beyme
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Comprehensive Studies

PARTIES ARE THE LINK BETWEEN EXISTING POLITICAL STRUCtures and the rocesses which lead to new political institutions. No wonder, therefore, that parties play an important role at the centre of many revolutionary theories. Nevertheless the theory of parties is not as decisive to Marx's social and political theory as one might imagine. Some introductions to Marx's thought do not even mention the catchwords ‘party’ or ‘parties’ though they concentrate on the sphere of his political ideas. In most books hints at a theory of parties are hidden away in remarks of marginal importance under the topics ‘praxis’ or ‘revolution’. Only those comprehensive studies which emphasize the continuity between Marxism and Leninism, because they defend the Marxist position, deal explicitly with the theory of parties. The same is true for those authors who overemphasize the continuity of Marxist thought, to a degree which almost identifies the theoretical positions of Marx, Engels and Lenin, for the purposes of anti-Marxist polemi.

Slavoj Žižek and Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

Slavoj Žižek stands as one of the most influential contemporary philosophical minds, stretching across a wide variety of fields: not just communication and critical/cultural studies, but critical theory, theology, film, popular culture, political theory, aesthetics, and continental theory. He has been the subject (and object) of several documentaries, become the source of a “human megaphone” during Occupy Wall Street, and become, while still living, the subject of his own academic journal (the International Journal of Žižek Studies). Žižek’s theoretical claim to fame, aside from his actual claim to fame as a minor “celebrity philosopher,” is that he weaves together innovative interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Jacques Lacan to comment on a variety of subjects, from quantum physics to Alfred Hitchcock films to CIA torture sites. While there are as many “Žižeks” as there are philosophical problem-spaces, Žižek proposes an essential unity within his project; in his work, the triad Hegel-Marx-Lacan holds together like a Brunnian link—each link in the chain is essential for his project to function. Further, his intentionally provocative work acts as a counterweight to what he views as the dominant trends of philosophy and political theory since the 1980s—postmodernism, anti-foundationalism, deconstruction, vitalism, ethics, and, more recently, speculative realism and object-oriented ontology.

Methodology in Karl Marx

1970 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Normative Concept ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Way

The development of Marx's mature social and political theory may be traced back in his writings to his political journalism of 1842–43, where a germinal doctrine on man's social nature supports a normative concept of the nature and function of political institutions. But his developing theory first achieved a measure of systematic rigor in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This work, Marx's earliest major theoretical writing, has lately received increased attention from scholars. My purpose here is to complement existing studies by highlighting certain methodological features of the work, specifically the way in which Marx combined elements of philosophical and political criticism in a systematic effort to develop his own political theory in opposition to the method and institutional conclusions of Hegel.

scholarly journals Interview with David McLellan July 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Larry Ray ◽  
Iain Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

David McLellan, interviewed here, is a Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Kent. Since the 1970s he has been one of the leading biographers, translators and commentators on Marx in the English-speaking world. He is the author of several books on Marx and Marxism, including The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx; Karl Marx: His Life and Thought; Karl Marx: Selected Writings; Marx before Marxism; and Marxism and Religion. He has also published a biography of Simone Weil, books on the political implications of Christianity, and a lengthy article on contract law and marriage. He lectures widely around the world on these topics, frequently in China, and in 2018 addressed a conference in Nairobi on religion and world peace. In this interview, or conversation, with Larry Ray and Iain Wilkinson, in July 2018, David discusses the origins of his interest in Marx, the development Marx’s thought and his critique of the Hegelians, Marx’s critical method, Marx and religion, Marx on Russia, the role of violence in social change, the relevance of Marx’s work today, and offers comments on some recent biographies. David has spent much of his intellectual career engaging with the meaning and legacy of Marxism and these reflections should generate reflection and debate on the significance of Marx and the possibilities of radical political change today.

Conclusion: Purgatory, or the Social Republic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Clare Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Self

This chapter concludes the book's argument by summarizing the themes from the earlier chapters into an account of the positive political theory of Capital and shows how Karl Marx appropriates Dante's Inferno via the social Hell trope. It challenges G. A. Cohen's suggestion that Marx subscribed to an obstetric doctrine regarding politics, noting that the terms in which Marx criticizes capitalism highlight the principles according to which communist institutions would have to be constructed and judged. Although Marx is often seen as a proponent of collective self-mastery or autonomy, his diagnoses of capitalism's evils consistently point out forms of domination rather than heteronomy. The chapter emphasizes the connection between socialism and Marx's midwifery and contends that Marx's republicanism found support in Robert Owen's appeals for cooperative communities regulating all production. The chapter thus argues that Marx should be appreciated both as a radical republican and an Owenite communist.

Political Theory of Council Democracy from Bakunin to Luxemburg

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-72
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Preliminary Discussion ◽  
History Of

The chapter reconstructs the intellectual history of council democracy from early anarchist interpretations of the Paris Commune over Karl Marx famous analysis of the Commune in The Civil War in France and Vladimir Lenin’s writings on the Russian Soviets to the Interwar council communists’ engagement with the German workers’ councils. The chapter argues, firstly, that Marx’ interpretation of the Commune sets the parameter for many subsequent theories of council democracy, and secondly, that Lenin’s analysis of the Russian soviets delivers an alternative theory of council democracy, insofar as he subordinates the councils to the Bolshevik party. The chapter ends with a preliminary discussion of the relation between the historical councils, theories of council democracy and the concept of the constituent power.

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